这意味着，三年后这些规定生效时，“素牛排”等产品需要改名。这些规定还可能影响肉味零食的制造商，但就目前情况来看，素食“汉堡”和纯素“香肠卷”将幸免。
It means products such as “vegetarian steak” will need to be renamed when the rules come into force three years from now. The rules will also probably affect manufacturers of meat-flavoured snacks, although, as things stand, veggie “burgers” and vegan “sausage” rolls will be spared.
根据欧盟各国政府和欧洲议会议员达成的妥协，被禁用的术语指的是动物的特定部位、术语或物种。香肠和汉堡被认为代表一种形状，而不是特定的动物。动物权利保护者批评这些新法律没有必要。
Under a compromise struck by EU governments and members of the European Parliament, the banned terms refer to specific cuts or terms or species of animals. Sausages and burgers were deemed to represent a shape rather than a specific animal. Animal rights campaigners have criticised the new laws as unnecessary.
善待动物组织的道恩·卡尔说：“如果立法者不是在向行业卑躬屈膝，而是认真对待食品标签的真实性，他们就会要求将牛奶标注为‘牛泌乳液’，将鸡蛋标注为‘鸡卵子’，将肉类标注为‘肉’。”
Dawn Carr, of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said: “If lawmakers were not kowtowing to industry but being serious about truthful food labels, they’d require dairy milk to be labelled ‘cow lactation fluid’, eggs ‘chicken ova’, and meat ‘flesh’.
“对我们如何称呼纯素食品对动物来说并不重要；重要的是我们选择纯素食品而不是肉质的、血腥的替代品。”英国食品和饮料联合会表示，支持英国与欧盟的协议，因为这将减少贸易壁垒和繁文缛节。然而，该联合会警告称，应该适当考虑英国对计划中的法律的担忧。
“It doesn’t matter to animals what we call vegan foods; it matters only that we choose them over the fleshy, bloody alternatives.”The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) said it supported the UK-EU deal because it would ease barriers to trade and reduce red tape. However, it warned that British concerns about planned laws should be given due consideration.
英国食品和饮料联合会首席科学官凯特·哈利维尔说：“该协议意味着所有企业都需要遵守欧盟的食品法，无论它们是否与欧盟进行贸易，其中一些将是英国脱欧以来生效的新法律。”
“The deal will mean that all businesses will need to comply with the EU’s food laws, whether they trade with the EU or not, and some of these will be new laws which have come into force since Brexit,” said Kate Halliwell, chief scientific officer at the FDF.
“肉类保护措施是一项新欧盟规则的例子，英国企业将需要遵守该规则，但英国并未参与其制定。展望未来，在欧盟决策中考虑英国利益非常重要。”
“Meat protections are an example of a new EU rule that UK businesses will need to comply with, but which the UK was not involved in developing. Moving forward it is important that UK interests are considered in EU decisions.”
政策可能“扼杀”植物基产业。她补充说：“这项具体政策有可能扼杀英国植物基产业的增长，同时给消费者带来的好处却微乎其微。我们将继续与政府合作，确保在我们过渡到这些新监管条件的过程中，英国企业的需求在当前和未来的欧盟政策制定中得到体现。”销售素食牛排的Quorn、Beyond Meat和Linda McCartney食品公司等一批植物食品制造商呼吁布鲁塞尔放弃这些标签规则。
Policy could ‘stifle’ plant-based sector She added: “There’s a risk this specific policy could stifle growth in the UK’s plant-based sector, while bringing little benefit for consumers. We will keep working with government to ensure the needs of UK businesses are represented in current and future EU policy making as we transition to these new regulatory conditions.”Quorn, which sells vegetarian steak, Beyond Meat and Linda McCartney foods were among a group of plant-food manufacturers calling on Brussels to abandon the labelling rules.
一位政府发言人表示：“我们不会对假设性情景或猜测发表评论。一项食品和饮料协议每年可为英国经济带来高达51亿英镑的收益，削减那些只会推高超市价格和扼杀贸易的繁重官僚程序。”据了解，英国谈判代表在重置谈判中已争取到少量与对齐义务的豁免。其中包括一个过渡期，允许英国基因编辑作物继续开发，直至欧盟规则更新。
A Government spokesman said: “We will not comment on hypothetical scenarios or speculation. A food and drink deal could deliver up to £5.1bn a year for the UK economy, slashing the costly red tape that only helps drive up supermarket prices and stifle trade.”British negotiators are understood to have secured small carve-outs from alignment in the reset talks. They include a transition period that would allow UK gene-edited crops to continue being developed until EU rules are updated.
一份为布鲁塞尔英欧峰会准备的联合声明草案对食品和饮料协议的达成表示欢迎。该草案仍可能变动，且尚未得到英国签署批准。
A draft joint statement for the UK-EU summit in Brussels, which is subject to change and has not yet been signed off by Britain, celebrates the conclusion of the food and drink deal.