In France, a culinary counteroffensive represents the meat industry’s decline

Stand by for Big Meat to launch a long, slanderous campaign against plant-based protein and its rival, ‘farm-free’ food, based on protein produced by ‘precision fermentation.'

The meat industry knows its time is coming to a close, just like Big Oil knew about its own impact on climate change in the 1970s.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 6, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—The French government has just published a decree banning the use of terms like ‘steak’, ‘spare ribs,’ and ‘ham’ on plant-based foods. Sausages and ‘poultry nuggets’ will escape the ban so long as the plant protein content is less that six per ...

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