Meat Product Names for Vegetarian Products

[Scot Dutchy]

http://www.dw.com/en/no-more-veggie-sau ... a-36928962

Entirely agree. Vegans want to hoist their health problems onto the rest of us.

[Forty Two]

Here is an example of those people screaming about how "political correctness" is evil and limits freedom by regulating speech actually also wanting to change the language.

Conservatives in Germany feel offended by vegetarian and vegan products that have names of meat products. And now they plan to pass a law to ban vegetarian products from using names like "Wurst" or "Schnitzel" or "Frikadelle".

A (animal) farmers organization actually planned to boycott an industrial meat producer who now also very successfully sells vegetarian products with meat names.

Germany doesn't have the same ridiculous worship of free speech, like in the US. In Germany, they do things civilized-like, which means that the people, through elected representatives, vote on reasonable restrictions on free speech. Here, they may want to avoid confusion in the marketplace, such that people buying the product will know there is or is not meat in there. It's just the government taking its proper role in consumer protection.

[Svartalf]

http://www.dw.com/en/no-more-veggie-sau ... a-36928962

for a moment I expected the article was 'no more veggie Sauerkraut'

[Brian Peacock]

http://www.dw.com/en/no-more-veggie-sau ... a-36928962

Entirely agree. Vegans want to hoist their health problems onto the rest of us.

What health problems are those then?

[pErvinalia]

Excessive gas.

[JimC]

We have a vegan girl in our staff room. Sexy as all hell, scarily intelligent, drinks like a fish and smokes...

[pErvinalia]

Probably got hairy legs.

[JimC]

No. I have examined them carefully, given her penchant for rather short skirts...

[Scot Dutchy]

Sounds very non vegan.

[Forty Two]

How do you milk an almond?

Just ask an almond milk person why they don't just drink a glass of water and eat a handful of almonds....

[pErvinalia]

Grab it by the nuts?

[Forty Two]

The almond milk proponents I've run into have all suggested that they want to avoid processed foods, and get a healthy milk alternative with the nutrition of almonds.

But, you have to drink about 6 cups of almond almond milk to get the same nutrition as 1 cup of almonds. And, it can't possibly be said that almond milk is not processed food.

So, I've said, why don't you eat a handful of almonds, and drink a glass of water. Totally unprocessed. No preservatives or "chemicals" (lol)..... no no, they say, almond milk is the way to go...

[Scot Dutchy]

Some stomachs cant take nuts. The milk is an easier alternative.

[Forty Two]

It really doesn't replace almonds, as it barely has almonds in it - It's mostly water, sugar, carageenan and lecithin. It's a giant waste of money.

Well, I won't speak for Dutch almond milk, which undoubtedly contains almost exclusively pureed and liquified almonds, with the purest of spring waters carefully drawn from Dutch wells by the soft hands of clog wearing Dutch girls....

[Brian Peacock]

FFS. It's just an ingredient - not a religion.