The Council of State once again suspends a decree banning the name "steak" vegetal
The Council of State once again urgently suspended, Wednesday April 10, a government decree prohibiting manufacturers of plant-based alternatives to meat from using the words “steak”, “escalope” Or “ham”on the grounds in particular “that there is serious doubt about the legality of this ban.”
The text responded to a long-standing demand from stakeholders in the animal sector, who believe that terms like “vegetable ham”, “vegan sausage” Or “vegetarian bacon” can create confusion among consumers. The government published a first decree in June 2022, suspended in summary proceedings by the Council of State, then a second at the end of February.
Several companies manufacturing meat substitute products had filed a summary suspension before the Council of State to contest the ban on terms like “steak”, “escalope” or “ham” to designate products based on vegetable proteins, Friday March 22. Decree taken by the government on February 26 “compromises the creation of a French sector of plant-based alternatives to meat” And “creates a harmful inequality of competition”, according to the companies taking part in the summary proceedings. The text “only concerns French products”what “completely disadvantages French industrialization, agriculture French”denounced Guillaume Dubois, co-founder of one of the companies that filed the summary judgment.
