3.6. Policies Against Milk Alternatives? ❌ EU Amendment 171 - History, Impact and Lessons

You may have heard of Amendment 171 in Europe. It aims to restrict plant-based dairy companies like Oatly immensely. They would not be able to call their product oat milk, creamy, or anything associated with conventional animal-based dairy. Possibly they wouldn’t even be able to package the products the same way milk is packaged.

Between recording and launch of this episode, the Amendment was dropped. - fortunately! Anyway, the alternative protein industry will have many more battles to face. It’s important for us to understand how legislature develops, is evaluated, and how we can influence it. Thus, this episode can help us learn from the past to brace ourselves for the future.

You will hear from Ronja Bertholdt, the Head of Public Affairs of the European Vegetarian Union and former Political Outreach Officer for ProVeg International.

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Please leave a review on Spotify and iTunes This episode is part of our season on promoting cellular agriculture and alternative proteins. Alt proteins are a rather recent development in the food industry and face some challenges on the consumer acceptance front. In the first season of Red to Green you will find an explanation of cell ag - whether you want to call it cultured meat, cell-based meat, cultivated meat, clean meat, or anything similar. This season is a follow-up and focused on the big challenges of cellular agriculture including socioeconomic questions, industry branding, nomenclature, and more.

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