PROTECTING THE PROFIT OF THE MEAT INDUSTRY
JUST when you would think those in power must have bigger fish to fry, like tackling service delivery, violent crime, corruption, unemployment and poverty, the government wants to ban the use of meat names for plant-based foods.
The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is poised to seize all faux meat products that use names like sausage, burger and steak, and claims its prohibition is to shield consumers from substandard or misleading products.
Really? Can there be consumers out there who are being duped into buying soya burger patties, thinking they are 100% mutton? There is no evidence to show that
