“Let’s call a spade a spade,” Celine Imart, the French member of the parliament who led the initiative was quoted by AFP news agency as saying about plant-based products. <\/p>\n
Marketing plant-based products using meat labels “is misleading for the consumer”, the member of the conservative EPP group in the EP said. <\/p>\n
Under the proposal, other labels like, “egg yolk”, “egg white” and “escalope” would be restricted to products that contain meat. <\/p>\n
The EU has already defined dairy items as products coming from the “normal mammary secretion”. This includes products like milk, yogurt and cheese. <\/p>\n
Oat milk, for instance, is called an oat drink on European shelves.<\/p>\n
Greens and liberal lawmakers have criticised the now-approved EP text as “useless”. <\/p>\n
“While the world is burning, the EPP has nothing better to do this week than to involve us all in a debate about sausages and schnitzel,” Anna Cavazzini of Germany’s Green Party was quoted by Deutsche Welle as saying. <\/p>\n
Environmentalists have said that the ban would be a setback for sustainability. <\/p>\n
The proposal has also drawn criticism from key food industry voices in Germany – the largest market for plant-based products in the EU, according to a report by the Good Food Institute of Europe. , external<\/a><\/p>\n