The South African government wanted to seize plant-based burgers. In retaliation, a food awareness group cooked more than 1,200 plant patties on Heritage Day, breaking an unofficial world record for the largest vegan braai.
Food awareness group ProVeg South Africa, along with several partners, cooked more than 1,200 plant-based burgers during a Heritage Day braai.
The record-breaking event comes amid government's bid to seize plant-based burgers, sausages, nuggets, and mince from shelves across South Africa. These plant-based products have no right to use names"prescribed for processed meat products", says the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development.Products sold as vegetarian burgers, sausages, nuggets, and mince should be outlawed, according to the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development , for using names "prescribed for processed meat products.
Vegetarian burgers, and similar plant-based foods, were already scheduled to have been stripped from shelves, with the DALRRD instructing South Africa's Food Safety Agency to seize products in contravention of the Agricultural Product Standards. These seizures were due to start on 24 August 2022.halting the Food Safety Agency from stripping shelves bare of veggie sausages was granted by the Johannesburg High Court.
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