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Veggie Burgers Can Be Called Burgers, European Parliament Says

Despite pushback from Europe's largest farmer's association, the Parliament will allow vegetarian meat alternatives to use meat-like terms, including burger and steak.
The European Parliament will allow vegetarian meat alternatives, like the Impossible Burger, to retain meat-like names.

The European Parliament came together Friday to vote on a variety of issues, including whether a veggie burger is a burger.

Farmer lobbyists argued no. Environmentalists said yes.

The Parliament said yes, too, in a decisive vote against a that would ban plant-based meat alternatives

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