Why don't vegan foods say what they're made from in the name?
A lot of vegan foods are labelled as the vegan version of their meat equivalent (vegan bacon, vegan burgers, cheesy slices etc), why are products not given their own names? Like everything is labelled as a sad equivalent of something else rather than being a product in its own right and I think the names reflect this.
I had a discussion with someone about Tofu and they were trying to argue it's cheese due to it having the same production process and that supposedly it's commonly referred to as vegan cheese (I found one source of that from a but like, it's called tofu, it has a name, it doesn't need a western one?
Similarly seitan gets called seitan, like there's no fluff around it, it is what it is and that's how (I think) it's meant to be.
When stuff is called vegan bacon/burger/sausage the prefix is always vegan or plant based, not soy/seitan/falafel/whatever, what's up with that?
And I guess additional question, would you prefer labels to state 'vegan burger' or 'ingredient burger' + plant based as a label?