You may have a hard time finding a veggie burger the next time you go anywhere in the European Union. A recent vote in the European parliament on food labeling has banned manufacturers from labeling vegetable products with a name that is used to describe meat.
That means consumers will no longer be able to buy a veggie sausage, steak, nugget, or burger. Instead, they will soon be able to ask for the "veggie disk," the suggested name replacement for a veggie burger.
Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, whose latest book is "The Feud: Vladimir Nabakov, Edmund Wilson and the End of a Beautiful Friendship," called the EU's new food labeling standards a “lunatic idea" on Boston Public Radio on Wednesday.
Beam said EU decisions like this are "why so many people voted to leave the EU."
