France’s language purists have decided that “soy milk” and “vegetarian sausage” do not exist
The French elite has long been protective of its mother tongue. Its latest target: fake meat. French parliamentarians have decided that they don’t like the tendency of vegetarian food producers to call things by their animal-based equivalents. A new rule (link in French), approved last week, bans so-called “misleading” practices that “associate terms such as…