‘Veggie burgers’ are here to stay. Lab-grown ‘steaks’ never will be. – POLITICO

“Veggie burgers” and “vegan sausages” can remain on European supermarket shelves, EU negotiators agreed Thursday. However, only products made of animal flesh can use terms like “steak” or “bacon.”

Unless that flesh was grown in a lab, in which case, those terms are also off-limits.

Those are the broad contours of the compromise reached by EU institutions after an MEP’s sleeper initiative to block vegetarian alternatives from using terms associated with meat — the so-called veggie burger ban — fueled political tensions over an otherwise technical farm file.