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If It’s Not Meat, Don’t Call It Steak, France Says
- List of terms includes ‘fillet,’ ‘ribeye steak,’ ‘spare rib’
- New rules will come into effect in three months in France
A butcher arranges meat at a supermarket in Herouville Saint-Clair, France.
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French shoppers will soon be seeing a lot fewer “vegetarian steaks” in their supermarket aisles.
The government issued a decree on Tuesday banning the use of terms such as “fillet,” “ribeye steak” and “spare rib” for food products that are plant-based. A total of 21 terms are included in the list, though “burger” is not.