Is this legal?

Mr_Singleton

Could a restaurant sell a 'vegan style' carrot salad wih the carrot replaced with smoked salmon? They're both an orange colour after all.

Reason I ask is that over the past week or so I've been subjected to vegan 'meatballs vegan 'cheese' etc.

It would appear to be that vegans believe that sticking 'vegan' in front of of anything allows then to lie about ingredients. As such can an omnivor do the same with adding 'style' to lie about the contents of a vegan dish?

george2009

I don't understand what you are asking?

Restaurants wouldn't be able to lie about ingredients? Saying vegan meatballs wouldn't mean that they are actual meatballs?

BoGoF

Why would they replace carrots with salmon?

Carrots cheap, salmon not so.

boo_star

BoGoF wrote: »

Why would they replace carrots with salmon?

Carrots cheap, salmon not so.

I think their point is that cheese is a description of something that, at the very least, cannot be vegan by nature of its ingredients. It is by definition a "dairy product."

Their argument, although perhaps a bit pedantic, is to ask why the reverse isn't true?

They do have a point, although perhaps a little too much time on their hands. If something says "vegan" that's enough for me to give it a wide berth.

shaun_from_Africa

I suppose that "vegan style" doesn't actually have to be vegan as long as it resembles a vegan dish.

After all, you can have a Victorian style house that was built in the 1950's so why not a vegan style dish that contains dairy products?

steampowered

Your post makes you sound like a bitter old fart. The whole point of labelling something as "vegan" makes it clear that it doesn't contain meat or cheese. If you don't want it, you don't have to buy it.

Mr_Singleton

For billions of people and for thousands of years the term 'meat' has quite clearly been used to denote the flesh of an animal.

Vegans it appears feel able to hijack the term by prefixing it with the word vegan. Oddly they aren't so happy when an omnivore does the same with 'style' a well known food term used for thing like Greek style Yoghurt or Chicargo style pizza on vegan products.

Why is that?

BoGoF

'Chicargo style'......what's that?

Poor attempt at trolling schoolboy/girl

Mr_Singleton

hollydays wrote: »

Even easier than good spelling and punctuation apparently.

Why are omnivores so obsessed with picking on vegans?

Tapping on a smart phone with cold fingers in the rain isn't particularly conducive to good punctuation unfortunately....

Anyway it's odd all though not surprising that vegans get upset when they have there narrative challenged as it highlights the tosh they peddle.

Anyway back to my original point why can't vegan/style be used?

Dymphna60

Somebody’s got to say it
OP why are you standing in the cold and rain asking a non question?

sheramber

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

Tapping on a smart phone with cold fingers in the rain isn't particularly conducive to good punctuation unfortunately....

Anyway it's odd all though not surprising that vegans get upset when they have there narrative challenged as it highlights the tosh they peddle.

Anyway back to my original point why can't vegan/style be used?

Who says 'vegan style' cannot be used apart from you?