To anyone dowvoting my remark, you’re more than welcome to tell me why/what you’re downvoting. At least, if by downvoting you wanted help me understand why there may be an issue with my comment. If not, don’t change a thing ;)
How the fuck do you look at a meat substitute product, which all scream “I AM NOT MEAT, I AM SUBSTITUTE” from the packaging to the naming conventions like “Like-Chicken”, and think this is meat. Please, if you do this, don’t do the shopping for your household. Depending on the language, you might end up with cleaning products in your breakfast cereal.
I didn’t actually downvote, but I do object to your characterisation of this as misleading. People aren’t labelling their products with the intent that the people buying it believe they’re eating meat.
Those labels are designed to communicate what sort of thing you can do with it. If you label something “burger”, for example, everyone will understand at a glance what they’re looking at, and that you might like to put it between two buns with some lettuce. It will also catch the attention of people who are looking to make burgers, but might not have considered non-meat options.
Also, common usage of words like “burger” aren’t limited to anything specific. People talk about “chicken burger” or “turkey burger” all the time, for example, and nobody accuses them of trying to trick people into eating chicken. Why not a “lentil burger” as well?
I’m afraid you may be right. And if that’s how they envision convincing anyone to change their their mind, well, good luck with that. But I was still hoping maybe there was something else in my comment, something meaningful I mean, that was worth criticizing and discussing.
If there is nothing but a few random strangers on the Internet being displeased by a comment, well, it’s not like they will stop being triggered anytime soon, and I certainly don’t want to waste my energy worrying about them being too lazy to tell me what they disagree with, and why. So, like I said, they’re more than welcome to continue hitting the downvote button ;)
To anyone dowvoting my remark, you’re more than welcome to tell me why/what you’re downvoting. At least, if by downvoting you wanted help me understand why there may be an issue with my comment. If not, don’t change a thing ;)
Okay, here I go: Heavily misleading marketing.
How the fuck do you look at a meat substitute product, which all scream “I AM NOT MEAT, I AM SUBSTITUTE” from the packaging to the naming conventions like “Like-Chicken”, and think this is meat. Please, if you do this, don’t do the shopping for your household. Depending on the language, you might end up with cleaning products in your breakfast cereal.
I didn’t actually downvote, but I do object to your characterisation of this as misleading. People aren’t labelling their products with the intent that the people buying it believe they’re eating meat.
Those labels are designed to communicate what sort of thing you can do with it. If you label something “burger”, for example, everyone will understand at a glance what they’re looking at, and that you might like to put it between two buns with some lettuce. It will also catch the attention of people who are looking to make burgers, but might not have considered non-meat options.
Also, common usage of words like “burger” aren’t limited to anything specific. People talk about “chicken burger” or “turkey burger” all the time, for example, and nobody accuses them of trying to trick people into eating chicken. Why not a “lentil burger” as well?
It’s just being brigaded by weird vegans it seems
I’m afraid you may be right. And if that’s how they envision convincing anyone to change their their mind, well, good luck with that. But I was still hoping maybe there was something else in my comment, something meaningful I mean, that was worth criticizing and discussing.
If there is nothing but a few random strangers on the Internet being displeased by a comment, well, it’s not like they will stop being triggered anytime soon, and I certainly don’t want to waste my energy worrying about them being too lazy to tell me what they disagree with, and why. So, like I said, they’re more than welcome to continue hitting the downvote button ;)