When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Everything can have only one meaning, and this meaning must be what legislators say it is.If you are thinking “benefit of Brexit”, I’m sorry to disabuse you.
51% : It’s about protectionism.
48% : For some reason, it is seldom marketed as such.But to the legislators of the EU, a sausage can now have only one meaning: a cylindrical object containing meat.
47% : None of these terms appear to cause any problems for legislators, though they have insisted that the only permissible definition of meat is “edible parts of the animals referred to in points 1.2 to 1.8 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004”, which is, let’s face it, how it’s commonly understood by shoppers across the EU.If a vegetarian hotdog is to be ruled out, as the parliamentarians demand, on the grounds that it contains no meat, the meat version should be ruled out on the grounds that it contains no dog (hothorse should in some cases be permissible).
32% : If the European Council and Commission eventually decide that terms such as veggie burgers and vegan sausages are to be banned in the EU, they are likely to be banned in the UK as well, for fear of jeopardising trade agreements.

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