A food fight is raging over what we can and can't call 'meat'

Dec 17 2022 by Business Insider

 

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Startups that make plant-based foods are battling the meat lobby for the right to describe their products as bacon, burgers or steak.

Three wiener dogs dressed up as hot dogs stood outside the UK Parliament.

That could be the start of a bad joke, but to the man who took the dachshunds there, it was utterly serious.

Morten Toft Bech, the founder of a startup that makes plant-based meat alternatives, brought the animals in protest.

It was 2020, and the European Parliament was...

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