"Nobody would call a hamburger a" meat salad ", so you don't understand why we want to call a hamburger a product that has, yes, a long list of ingredients, but not even a gram of meat."
This was announced by the president of Assocarni, Luigi Scordamaglia, who summarizes the position of the Italian and European livestock sector with respect to the discussion underway in Brussels on the possibility of using the names of meat also for veg products.
"An incorrect and dangerous cultural appropriation of the consumer - continues Scordamaglia -: calling" steak "or" sausage "what is not, not only means usurping the great heritage of tradition and know-how of the sector, but also inducing those who he buys to think of being in front of equivalent products, also from a nutritional point of view, but this is not the case ".
Scordamaglia concludes that "the right to choose a vegan preparation instead of a hamburger is not being questioned, they are asking for a clear choice in respect of the consumer and transparency, values that cannot be negotiated in favor of the profit of some multinationals. ".