EU cooks up fresh restrictions on use of 'meaty' terms for vegan products

Stuart Stone
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Lawmakers back plan to outlaw use of 31 meat-related words by plant-based foods - but veggie 'burgers' and 'sausages' remain on the table

European lawmakers have this week served up a provisional agreement to ban the use of 31 meat-related terms to promote vegetarian and vegan foods, in the latest move designed to clarify the extent to which...

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