{"id":15967,"date":"2018-04-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/04\/25\/france-bans-use-of-meat-like-terms-in-packaging-for-vegetarian-food\/"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:00:00","slug":"france-bans-use-of-meat-like-terms-in-packaging-for-vegetarian-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/04\/25\/france-bans-use-of-meat-like-terms-in-packaging-for-vegetarian-food\/","title":{"rendered":"France Bans Use of Meat-Like Terms in Packaging for Vegetarian Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/france-ban-vegetarian-vegan-meat-terms-packaging-burgers-steak-bacon-a8315626.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FRANCE, April 24. 2018 ( The Independent): The measure was put forward by MP Jean-Baptiste Moreau, who based his argument on a judgment last year by the European Court of Justice that soya and tofu products could not be marketed as &#8220;milk&#8221; or &#8220;butter&#8221;. Mr Moreau, a farmer and member of President Macron&#8217;s En Marche! party tweeted: &#8220;It is important to fight against false claims: our products must be designated correctly: the terms #cheese or #steak will be reserved for products of animal origin!. Refusals to comply with the ban will lead to fines of up to US$365,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Britain, reaction was divided. Some consumers wondered whether the French meat industry was feeling threatened by the rise in popularity of vegan food; others doubted that consumers would ever be confused. One said: &#8220;This is ridiculous. I can tell you now no carnivore has ever bought veggie sausages or Quorn thinking they were buying meat.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Wendy Higgins, of Humane Society International, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a shame that instead of embracing vegan and vegetarian food, France has adopted a position of defensive paranoia. But ultimately it won&#8217;t stop the rise of compassionate eating because the delicious, nutritious, Earth-friendly and ethical benefits will prevail regardless of what you call the products.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source FRANCE, April 24. 2018 ( The Independent): The measure was put forward by MP Jean-Baptiste Moreau, who based his,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}