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 6 percent.  Gwynne Dyer  It's not that the French are so stupid that they don't know which is meat from dead cattle and which is 'plant-based steak', a label that has been used in French supermarkets for at least 40 years. French agriculture minister Marc Fesneau comes close to suggesting that they are stupid with his talk about 'helping shoppers with the issue of honesty and transparency', but everybody knows what his game really is.

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