If a beef burger is made from plants — should it be allowed to use the term beef? Submissions to a Senate inquiry attract a range of views.
If a beef burger is made from plants — should it be allowed to use the term beef?The ACCC says plant-based meats are "unlikely to mislead an ordinary consumer"
"The whole basis is whether a reasonable person would be misled by that and would suffer harm, and that hasn't been triggered by any of the products we've seen."Mr Keogh said most of the complaints the regulator had received were from meat industry representative bodies. Nationals senator Susan McDonald, who is facilitating the inquiry with the rural and regional affairs and transport committee, said she had heard a different story to the ACCC.
"If these companies producing plant-based products with beef written on them were being truthful about their products, they'd have to write on the label: 'Our product is some form of vegetable, soy mush that's made from imported products that we manufacture in a lab and have to sell with allergy disclaimers on it'," CEO Will Evans said.
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