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No more cordon blur: France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language

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[-] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 10 points 1 year ago

I live in France. I have never encountered any instance of misleading packaging. No one is being fooled. This is a bullshit excuse made up by bullshit people. The meat industry is an extremely powerful lobby here, as is industrial agriculture, and this government is bending over backwards to accommodate their every whim.

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