EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨schizoidman@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨globalnews@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-lawmakers-push-ban-term-veggie-burger-2025-10-08/

cross-posted from: 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.

source

Comments

Sort:hotnew top

rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Protect farmers? As if the ingredients in plant based foods were not grown by farmers too. Fuck the meat lobby.

source
OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How exactly does this protect farmers? Are they going to have to be called veggie cylinders and fake-meat discs?

source
notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What a WOFTAM !

source
axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hamburg Germany should demand their name be protected as a DOC link France’s champagne.

source
- jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Hamburg to be renamed to Hamfrikadelle.
  
  source