The EU will ban more than 30 plant-based labels but not ‘burger’ and ‘sausage’.

  Le Monde6 March 2026
EU member states and lawmakers reached a compromise on Thursday to ban using meat-related terms such as “steak” and “bacon” to market plant-based foods – but spared veggie “burgers” and “sausage.”

The ban is still to be put to a vote in Parliament and the EU 27 member states.