Some MPs argued that consumers are not easily fooled by labelling on non-meat products. Photo: AP PHOTO

Politicians in the European Parliament have voted to ban the labelling of vegetarian protein with terms such as steak or meat.

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The MPs voted 532 to 78 to define meat as "edible parts of animals" and to safeguard the use of words like steak, escalope, sausage or burger for animal and not plant-based products.

The proposal will go to a parliamentary committee to be clarified, before going back to the EU executive arm and then to the bloc's 27 member states for further negotiations.

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