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Priorities: FDA cracks down on vegan mayonnaise labeling
Hot Air ^ | August 28, 2015 | Mary Katharine Ham

Posted on 08/29/2015 8:16:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

As always, the Food and Drug Administration has its eye on the ball and its arms around freedom…in a big, stifling bear hug. The Founders no doubt intended that the federal government would have a passel of people in charge of telling successful condiment producers what they can put on their labels. For freedom.

In this case, the federal government has decided a vegan company cannot put the name “Just Mayo” on its clearly labeled vegan mayonnaise product because the company doesn’t include egg whites in the mixture and does include some healthy stuff, like beta carotene. One would think most could discern from a vegan “Just Mayo” product that advertises itself as a vegan mayo product that it probably doesn’t have eggs—an animal product—in said vegan product. But why trust the American consumer when you can crack down on a small, upstart business selling a product people like to the people who like it? And, if we are to concede that it is indeed horribly misleading to call this product mayo, does it have to be a function of the federal government to correct this?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; hamptoncreek; labeling; marykatharineham; mayonnaise; memebuilding; nannystate; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well, if the stuff isn’t mayonnaise, the company should not be allowed to call it mayonnaise.

It’s just like if some company were selling textured colored tofu and calling it “beef.” It is a clear misrepresentation of the product.


21 posted on 08/29/2015 9:07:02 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No mayo for you!

What it looks like 130 miliseconds before a panic attack:


22 posted on 08/29/2015 9:08:41 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So call it June-o.


23 posted on 08/29/2015 9:10:51 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thank G-d they have fixed this problem!


24 posted on 08/29/2015 9:20:13 PM PDT by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is BS! If you don’t wanna buy vegan products, don’t buy them!


25 posted on 08/29/2015 9:26:59 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: sockmonkey

But mayonnaise does have to have those three things in an emulsion to be mayonnaise.

That’s simply what it is.


26 posted on 08/29/2015 10:26:38 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ JR.R. Tolkien)
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To: Inyo-Mono
> My wife and I have discovered that “No Fat” anything tastes terrible.

There's a reason for that.

FAT is what GOD put in FOOD to make it TASTE GOOD.

27 posted on 08/29/2015 10:29:44 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

No, its more like grinding up potato peels and packaging it as pork loin. You can’t do that because it is misrepresenting

It isn’t that it is vegan, specifically. It is that mayonnaise is an agreed upon, specific thing in the world of food. It has to have eggs to have mayonnaise, followed by some sort of acid and oil, held in an emulsion.


28 posted on 08/29/2015 10:35:54 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ JR.R. Tolkien)
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To: GraceG

This is what the FDA should be doing.


29 posted on 08/30/2015 12:20:49 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There is no greater enemy to American health than the FDA. LOL. CoA Reductase. What could go wrong?


30 posted on 08/30/2015 12:27:55 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...the Food and Drug Administration... has decided a vegan company cannot put the name "Just Mayo" on its clearly labeled vegan mayonnaise product because the company doesn't include egg whites in the mixture...
Yeah, and? Sounds like the FDA is doing its job for a change.

It's bad enough that Grape-Nuts (which contains neither) has been marketed for over a century. ;')


31 posted on 08/30/2015 3:22:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When are they going after the Almond Milk people?

And just a comment on vegan nuttiness in general. I have seen several sausage packages that tout that the pigs were on a vegan diet. I am eating sausage, so probably not a vegan, so why would I care?


32 posted on 08/30/2015 4:46:17 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s not mayonnaise. It’s fauxnaise. Like most “vegan” and vegetarian food products, it’s fake meat and fake fat.


33 posted on 08/30/2015 5:17:04 AM PDT by captain_dave
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To: mountainbunny

“Mayonnaise is a defined thing and has been for a couple of centuries. It is an emulsion of egg, oil, and acid.”

I seem to recall a similar story awhile back, and that is the reason the product is labeled “Mayo” instead of “Mayonnaise.” But I guess that wasn’t good enough.


34 posted on 08/30/2015 5:57:24 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Fraud is fraud.

I have no problem with them calling it fake mayo but not anything suggesting real mayo.

I don't mind products being labeled as fake bacon, fake sausage, fake burger, or fake hot dogs either as long as the label clearly indicates they are expensive fakes.

35 posted on 08/30/2015 6:00:27 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
because the company doesn’t include egg whites in the mixture

Since when are egg whites used in making mayonnaise? It's the yolks, stupid.

36 posted on 08/30/2015 6:58:59 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That's why I was able to pick up several bottles on clearance for $.99. I've recently discovered aquafaba and I'm anxious to try it out but I obviously don't need mayo in the near future. I'm thinking about trying it with meringues.
37 posted on 08/30/2015 7:20:01 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: TexasGator

Fat-free half and half. Disgusting. It whitens coffee with titanium. Another pet peeve is fat-free “sour cream.”


38 posted on 08/30/2015 9:15:27 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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