Plant-based foods and meat-like names

The French Supreme Court’s decision to allow manufacturers of plant-based meat substitutes to continue to use terms familiar to the meat industry such as “steak”, “sausage, “bacon” or “hamburger” should come as a great relief to the vegetarian and plant-based sector.

In 2022 and 2024 the French government introduced decrees in support of the meat industry that banned the use of such names for plant-based protein products. However, the Conseil d’État later annulled these decrees. //