Beef industry pushes crony regulation to ban the term ‘veggie burger’

Published July 9, 2019 7:42pm ET



American consumers are idiots. At least, that’s the message sent by a new law recently implemented by the Mississippi state government.

The new rule went into effect earlier this month and makes it illegal for companies that sell vegetable-based meat substitutes such as veggie burgers to label their products as “burgers” or use otherwise meat-like descriptors. This means that the words “hotdog” or “burger” can only be used for actual meat products.

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