Europe heroically defends itself against veggie burgers

Re:Europe heroically defends itself against veggie burgers by mc32 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:04PM (#22828895)

What if things get flipped in 20 years and lots of synthetic meats and other foodstuffs become the norm, would it be nice if the "natural" producers coopt their names and nouns to help sell their goods? for example, let's presume seitan is synthetic, it's well known for not being an animal product. But meat producers want in in their market and market "Natural Seitan"

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Re:Europe heroically defends itself against veggie burgers by woodandsteel on Friday April 10, 2020 @06:18PM (#22837883)

I would say the main question here is if consumers would be mislead into thinking "Natural Seltan" had the same advantages over meat that artificial seltan has. I don't think they would. In fact, I think they would find that label confusing, and just stay away from it.

And let me add that if meat producers find sales under the traditional label have dropped so low they need to adopt that new one, then they would have already lost the war.

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Re:Europe heroically defends itself against veggie burgers by mrgriffin on Friday April 10, 2020 @08:23AM (#22832296)

I'd probably find the name Natural Seitan misleading (i.e. mistakenly buy it thinking it was vegan), but calling it "Animal Seitan" would be perfectly acceptable/clear to me .

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Re:Europe heroically defends itself against veggie burgers by phonypc on Friday April 10, 2020 @09:57AM (#22833018)

Not sure seitan is the best example of "synthetic." You can make it at home in less than an hour with nothing but wheat flour and water.

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