Is this legal?

slashlover

I thought 'burger' and 'sausage' referred to the shape, like someone saying they had sausage fingers?

Surely calling it a vegan sausage is just a clarifier about what sort of thing it is made from? Similar to pork sausage, beef sausage etc?

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

Of course they could, as long as they clarified that it wasn't actually vegan in a similar way that they couldn't call a salmon salad a chicken salad without pointing out that it was actually salmon.

JimmyTheWig

ToxicWomble wrote: »

By that logic cheese can’t be called vegan cheese because cheese is classed as being made from dairy products
I would also say that the terms sausage and burger are also commonly understood to indicate meat in the ingredients.
So it’s ok for vegans to use carnivore descriptors but not for carnivores to use vegan descriptors.
I think this is what bugs people (including me) is the lack of consistency

There's a difference between giving someone something that they don't want and not giving someone something that they do want.

Grenage

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

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

Bit late to the party, but I'd just like to state that you are incorrect. The word 'meat' only started referring to animal flesh circa the 1300s; it originally referred to any solid food.


Languages change, as must we all.

jimbo6977

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/apr/04/eu-to-ban-non-meat-product-labels-veggie-burgers-and-vegan-steaks

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6715117/First-vegan-cheese-shop-faces-backlash-misleads-customers.html

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjqdqw/vegan-creamery-cant-call-its-product-cheese-anymore



Head-cheese anyone?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese