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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Europe's ‘hot dog populism’ seeks to ban advertising of vegetarian protein as meat

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Lawmakers in the European Parliament on Wednesday voted to ban the labelling of vegetarian protein with terms such as “steak” or “meat.”

The lawmakers voted 532 to 78 to define meat as “edible parts of animals” and to curtail the use of words like steak, escalope, sausage or burger for animal and not plant-based products. The proposal will go to a parliamentary committee to be clarified, before going back to the EU executive arm and then to the bloc's 27 member states for further negotiations.

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