• monogram@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    I keep saying the meat alternative producers need to come together and make new words and all use the same ones

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      Part of the problem is with discoverability. If you make a completely new word, people have no idea what your product is like, so they’re unlikely to try it.

      I think the best solution for them is to use words similar to the animal product, but obviously different, like “chick’n” or “chickenless” for example. I prefer the latter because it’s more explicit about not being chicken.

      But yeah, getting some standardization on it would be a big step in the right direction.

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      I had vegan bacon at one point, and it was NOT bacon, not even close. But it WAS good, it just needs an entirely different name.

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          I very much agree, but having these “substitutes” was something that facilitated cutting out meat for me, as all cooking I used to know revolved around meat as the main ingredient. In that sense these product serve a usefulness in reducing the threshold to move away from meat in the first place.