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While Canberra stalls on fake meat branding, plant ‘beef’ still on capital menus

A few months before last year’s Federal election, Coalition and ALP senators sitting on the rural and regional affairs committee jointly released and supported recommendations to prevent food products made with plants from being sold under descriptors such as beef, chicken or pork.

Senator Susan McDonald who chaired the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs committee inquiry into meat labelling.

The report, headlined Don’t mince words: definitions of meat and other animal products, also urged regulatory bodies to realign meat definitions in the domestic market with how they are used in…

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