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BEFORE YOU GO...WIKIPEDIA / VEGGIE BURGER BAN

WE CAN DIE HAPPY NOW

There are some days in life that you will remember for the rest of your life. Your wedding day, for instance. Or the day your first child was born. But there’s also the day you first find yourself listed as a reliable source in that repository of utterly reliable information, Wikipedia.

Not once but twice has Scottish Local Retailer been listed as the source of information on a Wikipedia page dedicated to, of all things, the Kensitas Club cigarette brand. Not exactly how we had hoped to be remembered in future, but you take what you can get in these “unprecedented” times.

VEGGIE BURGER BAN HARD TO SWALLOW

The world may be collapsing around our ears, but the European Parliament has nonetheless found time to debate and vote against the so-called ‘veggie burger ban’. You know the one, the proposal that would have banned plant-based products from being called names typically associated with meat products. Burgers, say, or sausages.

Interestingly, the European Parliament has however voted to ban the use of descriptive terms such as ‘yoghurt-style’ and ‘cheese alternative’, from being used on plant-based dairy products. Terms such as ‘almond milk’ and ‘vegan cheese’ are already banned on products in the EU, but the recent vote extends the regulations.