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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 deployed to describe meat.

The decision to protect meat-related terms and names “exclusively for edible parts of the animals” was firmly opposed by NGOs such as Greenpeace and Birdlife who insisted it presented a blow against sustainable food.

The ram wrote:This reinforces my stance on bombing f*ck out of Europe.

Bernie Sanders wrote:What do you want Mrs? Are we going to start calling soy beans.... filet mignon?

It's all about truth in advertising.

Bernie Sanders wrote:What do you want Mrs? Are we going to start calling soy beans.... filet mignon?

DoomYoshi wrote:However, it also misses the greater point that over-processed (read: American) products like veggie meats (or Chicken McNuggets) are NOT food.

tzor wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:However, it also misses the greater point that over-processed (read: American) products like veggie meats (or Chicken McNuggets) are NOT food.

Chicken McNuggets are "food" (180 calories, 11g total fat, 11g carbs, 10g total protein) but only in the dictionary definition of the word.

To compare a McNugget to a Vegie Burger is a crime of comparison. They are no where even close to being the same.