cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50562993

EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the term “veggie-burger” and limit food descriptions such as steak, escalope and sausage to products containing meat, part of a proposed EU law to protect farmers.

  • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Protect farmers? As if the ingredients in plant based foods were not grown by farmers too. Fuck the meat lobby.

  • OmegaMouse@pawb.social
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    4 months ago

    How exactly does this protect farmers? Are they going to have to be called veggie cylinders and fake-meat discs?

  • AxExRx@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Hamburg Germany should demand their name be protected as a DOC link France’s champagne.

    • jol
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      4 months ago

      Hamburg to be renamed to Hamfrikadelle.