The following report is by Vegconomist:
The proposed legislation, authored by Representative Harry Jürgensen, aims to protect consumer rights and prevent misleading practices in the food industry.
“The proposal establishes a statute for fair competition between animal-origin foods and plant-origin foods when the latter imitates the properties of the former. To this end, it distinguishes between natural and synthetic origin so that all people are clearly aware of the types of foods they are consuming,” says the press release from the Chamber of Deputies.
The bill, which has recently passed through the Agriculture Committee and is now being debated at the Chamber of Deputies, seeks to establish clear guidelines for plant-based alternatives. If passed, it will introduce the term “simulated food” to define products that closely resemble meat, dairy, or eggs but are entirely plant-based.
The proposal also mandates clear labeling for such products, requiring them to be explicitly identified as “simulated food.” Additionally, the bill prohibits misleading advertising and the use of animal imagery to promote these plant-based alternatives.
The press release adds, “The Ministry of Health, through the Food Health Regulation, will additionally determine the form, size, colors, proportion, characteristics, and content of the mentioned labels and nutritional tags, ensuring especially that the information contained therein is visible and easily understood by the population.”
Matias Latugaye, VP Latam at NotCo, shared on social media, “At NotCo, as well as many other FoodTech companies, we seek to add value and innovation to food production through technology. It is striking that while there are so many attempts to promote innovation and celebrate entrepreneurship in Chile, there are bills that go in the absolute opposite direction.”
NotCo successfully appealed a court ruling this January prohibiting the use of the word milk in its NotMilk trademark in Chile. The long lawsuit began when the Association of Milk Producers of the Los Ríos Region accused NotCo of unfair competition over using the term “milk” for its plant-based beverages and filed a suit in 2020.
In addition to competition and labels, the bill raises concerns about the potential environmental impact and safety of alternatives, particularly those produced using cells, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.
“If approved, what the text will achieve is to hinder […] the development of an innovative and strategic industry for Chile”
While acknowledging the potential benefits of plant-based foods in addressing food security and sustainability challenges, the bill emphasizes the need for rigorous scientific evaluation and transparent labeling. “The spirit of the bill is to clearly establish which foods are of animal origin and which are plant-synthetic origin foods,” says the announcement.
Latugaye added, “If approved, what the text will achieve is to hinder and discourage the development of an innovative and strategic industry for Chile, which has inserted the country on the map of world innovation thanks to the development of local technological knowledge based on the use of tools such as AI.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Whether this bill passes or not, I found it interesting that the Chilean government would call these faux meats “simulated food.” That’s a pretty good name for it: “food” for a fake reality.
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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There’s this American guy shopping in Mexico that took a video of the American-made cereal foods sold there. There were no cartoon characters to entice kids on the packaging, and they have in big, bold letters on the boxes that say excessive sugars, excessive sodium, excessive calories (in Spanish).
Yes, I’ve noticed on the Mexican imported foods, snacks, and candy it warns of excessive sugar or sodium – sugar being the worst offender. Now if only America could not only follow suit, but also eliminate HFCS, aspartame, artificial dyes and colors and so forth.
Yeah. It’s only too obvious that citizens in the US and Canada, etc. are intentionally being weakened and destroyed from all angles.
Good for them!
I realize some biblical truths now about being a Manasseh type Christian in this age of deceit, presumption & alchemy; & am at peace w/ them through the grace of God offered to the truly seeking & repenting w/repentance not to be repented of (of what we ARE, knowing both the terror of the Lord, & the truth of ‘absent from the body, present w/the Lord’ 2 Cor 5 KJB).
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The subtilty of pride& deceit, claiming to believe ‘every word’, & to ‘rightly divide’ when really not is very prevalent. The most difficult part of that giving over those who are so deceived & deceptive that they fool you right up to the end that there’s a hope for them, until the Lord by his grace& every word believed in truth makes plain that it’s not so, agreeing with the Lord and praying for them to be judged as their works deserve.
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Any form of TULIP or true hyperdispensationalism is disqualified by definition since it dismisses the every word Bible gap, & necessarily inserts the pagan ‘Eternity Past’w/ the master nicolaitan keeper & promoter of the ‘Eternal Decrees’ as part of the thing. Both philosophical speculation & craft: sorceries, at both ends of that thing. Still, better to be individually saved as a type of Manasseh, & not found a liar, or a spiritual bastard, in the end.
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National, corporate, salvation of the nation is a different matter; &, of course, there’s a cult sorting itself out by choice at each of the trying transition points in Acts, James, Hebrew & the rest of the ‘general’ epistles. Sobering matter.
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The cunning ‘white pope’ prior to the great depression led the world w/ positive affirmations & flatteringly seductive speeches of ‘peace’ & ‘global unity’, all the while knowing that the black pope was in place to buy it all up for a song after the lie was accepted. Meanwhile, you had ‘conservative Jewish convert’, Richard Wurmbrand, pushing relics & icon ….no resurrection…Orthodoxy as the foil for supposed opposite ‘black mass’ stuff: neither legit. Both Augustinian sorcery games. Both promoting works & self-righteousness, both ecumenical: neither legit.
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If you get ‘played’ by the phony Augustinian Sermon of the Mount types & their ‘imitation of Christ'(the very meaning antichrist), who claim those things to be in effect, even denying the Lord’s words: BUT NOW… you are a blasphemer & a deceiver by definition.
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If you get ‘played’ by the Augustinian TULIP folks w/ their pagan ‘Eternity Past’, & required nicolaitan, master sorcerer keeping& passing on the ‘Eternal Decrees’ …then you call God a liar, make him the author /inventor of evil & iniquity, do not truly believe every word of the King James Bible, & are a sorcerer& a deceiver by definition!
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See how that ball bounces? Better to get that thing & be humbled this side of the catching up, taking your extremely humbling place as a Manasseh type, with true thankfulness& no games, than to continue on in pride& denial, because you can’t pick up that stick without getting both ends, & the Lord isn’t playing games anymore with either steeple houses, or those who claim to believe every word KJB while not truly doing so. God isn’t mocked. And, he’s no gambler either.
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