Cooked: EU Parliament Votes to Ban Meat-Free Marketing Terms Like ‘Veggie Burger’

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European Parliament lawmakers voted on Wednesday to prohibit the use of meat terms like burger or sausage to market so-called ‘veggie’ alternatives.

MEPs in Strasbourg voted by a margin of 355 to 247 in favour of an amendment to ban terms such as “veggie-burger” or “vegan sausage” to protect farmers from deceitful competition. The text also cited terms such as “egg yolk” and “egg white”, Reuters reported.

The EU had previously set out that diary products are specifically those “secreted by mammary glands” such as butter, cheese, cream, milk or yoghurt, while products such as oat milk should be termed oat drink or some other non-dairy referencing term.

EU Parliament Votes to Ban Meat-Free Marketing Terms Like 'Veggie Burger'

European Parliament lawmakers voted to prohibit the use of meat terms like burger or sausage to market so-called veggie alternatives.

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[Tall Timbers]

I'm surprized the E.U. is working on this. I'd like to see something similar in the USA. The way fake lab meat and vegetable meat alternatives are marketed and displayed in grocery stores, often right next to real meat makes it easy to make a mistake and accidentally buy the fake stuff.

 

[dwb]

Good deal! Tennessee has done something similar.