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bleep_bloop | 2 years ago

"The draft suggested plant-based products should even be prohibited from saying they are ‘not milk’ – or describing themselves as ‘alternatives’ to dairy products."

The UK speed running it's way to become the silliest little land.

Probably this will all get watered down during debate but the fact this and the recent traffic proposals are even being suggested shows the current regime is at a dead end and have nothing better to do unless they start moving to the political centre or god forbid do something popular like closing tax loopholes or legislating markets that are actually scamming consumers like supplements.

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alibarber|2 years ago

This is... not without precedent: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/apr/04/eu-to-ban-non-m...

Hopefully these plans will meet a similar end.

bleep_bloop|2 years ago

"Veggie discs" gave me a chuckle.

As a vegetarian I don't actually care for meat substitutes anyway, I call them veggie junk food since most of them contain dubious amounts of actual vegetables but I just don't see consumers being confused or hurt by calling veggie burgers, burgers.

Just pointless lobbying in a vein attempt to turn people away from switching from meat.

celticninja|2 years ago

this is just dairy industry lobbying, there is no consumer benefit here.

pgt|2 years ago

How can you say there is no consumer benefit to having accurate labels?

pydry|2 years ago

It does appear that theyre completely out of ideas and just milking (am I allowed to use that word, lobbyists?) their power to collect favors.

Starmer is a complete dead end though. Ever since he took over he's thoroughly destroyed the viability of the Labour party - possibly forever. The recent elections confirmed that.

So the Tories will probably still win, even though the majority will split themselves between a protest Lib dem vote, protest SNP vote or protest Labour vote.

bleep_bloop|2 years ago

I'm not completely ready to rule out a Labour win next election but Starmer just isn't inspiring. And he's endlessly damaging his own reputation by cancelling a new pledge every week. How can anyone believe a word he says anymore. Hell, he's been given a free pass by the media for the most part and he's still messing it up.

RobotToaster|2 years ago

I can somewhat see the logic that it's easy for a product to have MILK in a large font then "not" in tiny font or similar.

elliekelly|2 years ago

What would be the motivation for a company to do this though? Trickery is not the way to win over new customers. The people buying these products want “not” milk. They’re specifically seeking out a product that isn’t milk. These companies have every reason to highlight the “not” rather than to hide it.