France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe vegetarian products

Re:France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe veget... by londons_explore on Thursday June 30, 2022 @10:05PM (#31941337)

Especially when you consider that the profit margins on real meat and cheese are pretty tight, while the profit margins on flavoured soy are huge.

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Re:France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe veget... by kjkjadksj on Thursday June 30, 2022 @10:14PM (#31941410)

I wonder how cheap flavored soy will be in a world where there isnt a meat industry producing cheap bonemeal and bloodmeal fertilizer

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Re:France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe veget... by morsch on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:42AM (#31942784)

How significant is it as a source of commercial fertilizer? A rounding error, from what I can tell. An article on the situation in Germany gives it the potential to replace 5% of phosphate, if all of the bonemeal was used, and currently, barely any of it is used that way.

https://idw-online.de/de/news642547

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Re:France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe veget... by tommit on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:26AM (#31944137)

It isn't. Not to mention that 80% of the soybeans are used to feed livestock anyway[0]. This is a bullshit argument, as most tend to be when it comes to this topic.

[0] https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/food_practice/susta...

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Re:France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe veget... by sagarm on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:25PM (#31950628)

But when we're all vegetarian, where will the bullshit come from?

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