Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers "veggie burgers"
Its been a good few months for the plant-based meat movement so good that opponents of the fledgling industry are starting to mobilize.
This week, a new law went into effect in Mississippi. The state now bans plant-based meat providers from using labels like veggie burger or vegan hot dog on their products. Such labels are potentially punishable with jail time. Words like burger and hot dog would be permitted only for products from slaughtered livestock. Proponents claim the law is necessary to avoid confusing consumers but given that the phrase veggie burger hasnt been especially confusing for consumers this whole time, it certainly seems more like an effort to keep alternatives to meat away from shoppers.
The plant-based meat alternative category is on fire right now, with consumers demanding healthier and more sustainable options, Michele Simon, the executive director of the Plant-Based Foods Association, said in a statement. This law, along with similar laws in several other states, is the meat lobbys response.
The makers of meat alternatives are suing. In a lawsuit filed on July 2, they argue that since their products are already labeled vegan, no consumers are confused. If anything, the requirement that they avoid product descriptions like veggie burger makes things more confusing.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/3/20680731/mississippi-veggie-burgers-illegal-meatless-meat
PJMcK
(22,883 posts)Perhaps the Mississippi legislature knows that their education system is so poor that their citizens can't tell the difference between meat and vegetables.
Mississippi and Alabama are the two lowest states in education and economy. Yet this is how their politicians spend their legislative efforts!
Pathetic.
demmiblue
(37,849 posts)The last time they weren't ranked last, or second to last, was in 1998.
https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/Overall/state/MS
A few more plant based meals would probably be a good idea.
klook
(12,884 posts)Blues Heron
(6,130 posts)of course they're neither. They're radical, orwellian creepazoids.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)*Mississippi and West Virginia have the distinction of tying for title of fattest state in the nation, with 35.1% obesity rate.
Voltaire2
(14,700 posts)states rights over federal regulations. The upside of that is that we will devolve into two geographic, cultural, and legal regions. Jesusland will be an unmitigated cesspool of authoritarian religious intolerance. But there is hope that the rest of us can move forward with the great project of building a compassionate tolerant democratic society.
CrispyQ
(38,240 posts)gtar100
(4,192 posts)Government for them is to protect markets, or more specifically, protect themselves.
How many breaths will they take before they say they're capitalists.