FEDERAL COURT BLOCKED THE STATE OF ARKANSAS LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO LABEL ITEM VEGGIE BURGERS
Posted on
December 25, 2019 by
The VRG Blog Editor
A federal court blocked the state of Arkansas from enforcing its meat label law that doesn’t allow companies to use words like “burger, and “roast” to describe products that are not made from animals, such as veggie burgers, even if modified by qualifiers such as “vegan,” “veggie,” or “plant-based.” For information, see: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/arkansas-made-it-illegal-call-veggie-burger-burger-were-suing
Also, you may be interested in The Vegetarian Resource Group FDA testimony on a related topic: https://www.vrg.org/blog/2019/11/22/vegetarian-resource-group-testimony-submitted-to-food-and-drug-administration-fda-on-horizontal-approaches-to-food-standards-of-identity-modernization/
