Parliament gets its knife out for veggie burgers
Found on Politico on Wednesday, 15 May 2019
MEPs in the European Parliament's agriculture committee are now pushing to enshrine into law that only meat products can use words such as "steak," "sausage," "escalope," "burger" and "hamburger."
Needless to say, environmentalists and vegetarian food providers see an outright assault on increasingly popular plant-based foods.
If you need to give your food a meat-connected name, then you are not really supporting the idea behind it. As long as you need to lie to yourself (or worse, your customers), you might as well drop the farce and eat real meat. However, if you see a vegan life as an enjoyable alternative, you do not need to stay tied to what you want to leave behind.