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Eric Andrieu

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#Savetheveggieburger

On April 1st, the European Parliaments Agriculture Committee (AGRI) voted for a proposition to ban the use of the words ”burger”, ”sausage”, ”steak” and similar ”meaty” words to describe vegan and vegetarian products. A similar ban is already in effect in France regarding meat products and in the entire EU regarding dairy products, but now the Committee wants to take it a step further and ban the meat-related terms in the entire EU. This is a step in the wrong direction for the climate as it will contribute to the view of vegan food as something else than "normal" food, and thus not be as desirable as meat. Therefore, we now urge you/strongly recommend you to reconsider the proposition. We argue that this is the exact opposite of what the European parliament should be doing. Instead of banning the term vegan burger they should embrace it as a way of making the european food cultures more climate friendly and sustainable. They should advocate and create more climate friendly conditions for European farmers and producers - not hinder them. Somewhere about 20 % of consumer CO2 emissions comes from food and meat is responsible for 70 % of these emissions. We need to eat different than we do today to save the climate. We think that it would be much harder to make the Italians eat indian food for the sake of the climate than making them eat vegan salsiccia. Don’t you? Therefore, we need to save the terms vegan burger, vegan sausage and steak in order to make more people discover the fact that vegan food actually can be a perfect alternative to meat. With this statement we’re launching a campaign aimed towards getting the new members of the European Parliament to say no to this proposition. We want them to take firm actions for a more sustainable european agricultural policy that sees plant based food as part of the solution for the climate crisis. Instead of regulating against the development of more climate friendly versions of dishes that we Europeans love. The members of parliament should help European farmers to grow this food! Aim your efforts towards helping companies to develop better vegan alternatives based on european crops that can give meat farmers a sustainable future option to meat production. And instead of forbidding the words of the future, help us spread the word about the possibility of making the traditional food we love more sustainable! We are the people, the companies and the organisations that this proposition is aimed towards. We are the restaurants, the product manufacturers, we are the influencers, we are the consumers and we are saying #savetheveggieburger. Save our right to not having to choose between eating good and doing good. Agree to this campaign if you like this idea and want to read the answer from Eric Andrieu, the MEP from France who is responsible for the proposition and your own future MEP’s answers to the campaign. Regards, the European people who want to see more a more climate friendly food policy from the European Parliament

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  • Bel Jacobs

    161 w

    Completely agree. I can't help thinking that this is Big Animal Ag in backlash at a movement that benefits people, planet and animals - but of course not Big Ag itself.

    • Abbison

      177 w

      I support this

      • Lilian Mercy

        179 w

        Start of somewhere

        • Raven Way

          179 w

          Hi ydgdy

          • Post on Sunday

            179 w

            Interesting

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            • Gransport65

              179 w

              Hamburger comes from Hamburg and has nothing to do with ham, it's just the name of a style of sandwich. But language changes, "burger" is now the sandwich style and you can add what ever. Like chicken burger, lamb burger etc. If veggie burger is stopped, so should chicken burger. Politicians shouldn't interfere with language. And if something should be decided I vote for only hamburgers actually made in HAMBURG should be legal.

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              • We Don't Have Time

                179 w

                EU will vote on this on Tuesday 20th October 2020. Please help us share this warning on other social media if you agree.

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                • Nicholas Miller

                  192 w

                  let me ask you. Why is manufacturing scare stories more important than this? https://www.climatecolab.org/contests/2015/energy-water-nexus/c/proposal/1320136

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                  • Petra Helene Bonello

                    179 w

                    I agree. This is a very important factor too, to combat climate change and having a less polluted environment. It is also recycling waste !

                  • Christmas Climate Strike

                    224 w

                    I love this! The Economist has a good, satirical take on the absurdity of such word bans https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/06/29/europe-heroically-defends-itself-against-veggie-burgers

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                    • Terence Milbourn

                      228 w

                      This is so wrong-headed it's almost comical. You don't promote a better, more planet-friendly and eco-responsible way of eating by calling it by the same names as the problem meals from the irresponsible attitudes which are helping to destroy the world we live in. Think about it, You are reacting, not acting.

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                      • Swag Valance

                        249 w

                        I actually think this is a little sad and misplaced. It's also symptomatic of activism in an era of social media where likes and hashtags become the battleground instead of habits and actions. Instead of the necessary change in psychology required to go vegan, we're advocating the route of faking it. Vegan cuisine offers a great variety of options to enjoy without resorting to synthetic, chemically overprocessed emulations of the meat-eating culture we are actively supposed to avoid. I know this measure is seen as a linguistic defense by the entrenched meat industry, but it's the wrong battle. Fake meat is to veganism what child sex dolls are to preventing pedophilia. Bad habits are bad habits, and using linguistic fakery to pretend there's no change or sacrifice involved is the stuff of fools.

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                        • Karen V

                          250 w

                          Echoing Lee Spencer’s comment

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                          • Alice Strand

                            256 w

                            Thank you for your campaign and congratulations on reaching the next level. A message has been sent to the recipient.

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                            • Georg Osthaus

                              257 w

                              I found the naming-laws of the EU already quite superflous. No need to make it even worse. A burger patty is a burger patty and i don't care whether it contains beef or soy-roots like that new patty burger King is trialing in the US right now.

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                              • Lee Spencer

                                257 w

                                I support this, having read there may be proposals to call veggie burgers ‘discs’ which is ridiculous. This smacks of the meat industry lobbying the EU parliament, we cannot let big industry like oil and food influence policies.

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                                • Samuel Plumppu

                                  257 w

                                  Vego "discs"? That's more confusing than vego burger!

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                                • Robert Armblad

                                  257 w

                                  Att ge animalieindustrin ensamrätt att använda namn på diverse matformer är ett orimligt förslag tydligt utformat för att gynna enskild part. Det är tydligt att förslaget har sin utgångspunkt i att försvara den storskaliga animalieindustrins makt och vinster genom att försvåra människors övergång till en (mer) vegetabilisk kost. Med hänsyn till såväl djur som till klimat så lovar jag som kandidat för Vänsterpartiet att om jag tar plats i EU-parlamentet att rösta nej till förslaget. Robert Armblad (V) Kandidat till EU-parlamentet

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                                  • David C. Waddell

                                    257 w

                                    I actually think little cultural shifts to get people used to every day changes is exactly what we should care about. Climate change is death by a thousand cuts so we need to shift culture.

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                                  • David

                                    257 w

                                    There are more important things to worry about.

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                                    • Ingrid Hesser

                                      257 w

                                      Perfekt

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                                      • Steven Feuerstein

                                        257 w

                                        Fantastic

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