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Swiss Supreme Court Bans Animal-Specific Terms on Vegan Product Labels (vegconomist.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Sunshine@lemmy.vg to c/vegan@slrpnk.net

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

the problem is that they're banning words like "steak" which isn't about ingredients

The word steak was written steke in Middle English, and comes from the mid-15th century Scandinavian word steik, related to the Old Norse steikja 'to roast on a stake', and so is related to the word stick or stake.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

The point here is that nobody really cares for middle English name origins. Ask 100 random people what "steak" is, and I'd be surprized if you did not get at least 99 answers that it's meat.