Government Should Keep Its Hands Off Our Tofu Sausages!

You may or may not want to eat something called a “veggie burger,” but you probably have a good idea what is in it: Vegetables. And not meat. Similarly, you also probably have a good idea what is in a “hamburger”: Beef, not ham. And a “cheeseburger”: Not just a big cheese patty, but cheese melted on top of beef (yum!). Consumers are pre tty savvy about these things.Sometimes governments try to offer “clarity” through labeling regulations, but in doing so they often make things more confusing. Last yearwe wrote about U.S. government efforts to prevent dairy-free milk products from using the word “milk” on their packaging. Now, the European Union’s legislative body, the European Parliament, is going after themillennial scourge of plant-based products with “meaty” words in their name (avocado toast appears to be safe for now). AsThe Guardianreports:Veggie burgers are for the chop, a Brussels committee has decreed, to be replaced by the less palatable-sounding “veggie discs”.And it won ’t be just bean or mushroom burgers condemned to the food bin of history. Vegan sausages, tofu steaks and soya escalopes could all be approaching their ultimate best-before date, after a vote in the European parliament on revisions to a food-labelling regulation.In a move that some MEPs suspect bears the fingerprints of the meat industry, the parliament ’s agriculture committee this week approved a ban on producers of vegetarian food using nomenclature usually dep...
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