"They're doing this kind of nonsense." 🙄 The European Parliament has decided to rename vegan burgers and schnitzels 🍔🥬.

Parliamentarians in Strasbourg 🇪🇺 have decided that, in order to avoid confusion, vegan burgers can no longer be called that. Now they will be called, for example, "soy patties" 🌱.

Meat substitutes will also lose their right to the title of "schnitzels" and "sausages" 🌭🍽. Manufacturers and sellers of vegetarian meat substitutes actively opposed this proposal 🚫, but their opponents managed to gain the upper hand ⚖️.

One of the arguments is to protect consumers from being misled, as plant—based products do not have the same nutritional properties as their animal counterparts 🥩. In addition, it destroys the usual ideas about what food should be called 🍴.

This opinion is shared, for example, by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz 🇩🇪: "A sausage is a sausage. Sausage is never vegan."

The decision has yet to be agreed with the EU members 🏛. CDU MP Peter Liese hopes that the "meaningless demand" will be lifted at this stage:
"It is a pity that the majority of the European Parliament is engaged in such nonsense at such a time."

Jan-Christophe Etienne, an agricultural expert from the FDP 🌾, spoke even more sharply:
"We cannot explain to people why the European Parliament votes for such an absurdity. This decision undermines the credibility of the EU Parliament."

#Germany #EU #Merz

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