{"id":14667,"date":"2019-12-25T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=14667"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T19:35:28","slug":"federal-court-blocked-the-state-of-arkansas-law-making-it-illegal-to-label-item-veggie-burgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/25\/federal-court-blocked-the-state-of-arkansas-law-making-it-illegal-to-label-item-veggie-burgers\/","title":{"rendered":"FEDERAL COURT BLOCKED THE STATE OF ARKANSAS LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO LABEL ITEM VEGGIE BURGERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A federal court <a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/wf\/click?upn=G62jSYfZdO-2F12d8lSllQB45e5-2BpSNNDYtNT1ak-2BWN0z2-2BSWG1NGOyMFEgYcEVi-2BQBddhU29wRF-2FJUHhP-2BNcAr-2FGuEPeY1vOxQ1eQFPe2NwY7jXPPQKjTX9XrgfYBOsUm8e8p5ZAPQPkmrNnupV5ZZA-3D-3D_XeIwWRfUNCHvoUG2DBoibsK6aCGmI9tNqsf2v2fEvtri-2B8-2FGQieFsiGCtJPseGqjRiKV-2BsFLCJ2zAnJWcsdMaWhY5mFqwHXTYh1Mib9PZIJkKVXPyWhzvjlw26rWFmf-2BXPTwopFGxkkx-2Bn2B9xP0L0wIGCGIGURTmz2yC0SKPTLXKxVGWRpSzB-2FgnkLXdPQrK-2FvA1V55maVw96XwUv0zMRHCnatT0yV29o-2BeaUO9GrvkYoSzPA6nCy2PA-2F7y4JM-2B-2F1w-2F2IMvywPMH66-2Bgv35qhzZFH5FblnNgEV86l6Lv1mGxQyic97CiDJcv8hWWcfpJvOE1A-2F9zC34F1qoQ4tg1A-3D-3D\">blocked<\/a> the state of Arkansas from enforcing its meat label law that doesn&#8217;t allow companies to use words like \u201cburger, and \u201croast\u201d to describe products that are not made from animals, such as veggie burgers, even if modified by qualifiers such as \u201cvegan,\u201d \u201cveggie,\u201d or \u201cplant-based.\u201d For information, see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/free-speech\/arkansas-made-it-illegal-call-veggie-burger-burger-were-suing\">https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/free-speech\/arkansas-made-it-illegal-call-veggie-burger-burger-were-suing<\/a><br><br>Also, you may be interested in The Vegetarian Resource Group\u00a0FDA testimony on a related topic: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/vegetarian-resource-group-testimony-submitted-to-food-and-drug-administration-fda-on-horizontal-approaches-to-food-standards-of-identity-modernization\/\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/vegetarian-resource-group-testimony-submitted-to-food-and-drug-administration-fda-on-horizontal-approaches-to-food-standards-of-identity-modernization\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court blocked the state of Arkansas from enforcing its meat label law that doesn&#8217;t allow companies to use words like \u201cburger, and \u201croast\u201d to describe products that are not made from animals, such as veggie burgers, even if modified by qualifiers such as \u201cvegan,\u201d \u201cveggie,\u201d or \u201cplant-based.\u201d For information, see: https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/free-speech\/arkansas-made-it-illegal-call-veggie-burger-burger-were-suing Also, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14668,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions\/14668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}