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Vegan and vegetarian food masquerading as meat will soon be scrutinised by a Senate committee.
Nationals senator Susan McDonald has launched an inquiry into food labelling laws as the Australian red meat industry seeks to protect the provenance of its products.
The former butcher said it was up to makers of non-meat products to come up with their own distinct terms instead of piggybacking off long-established animal proteins like mince and sausages.
An Australian red meat industry is fighting for plant-based products to stop using the word meat in their labels (pictured plant-based beef sausages)
Meat producers are taking issue with how plant-based food producers are packing their products as though they are real meat
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Subscriber only A 20-year-old Redlands man will face court later this week charged with dangerous driving causing death following a collision earlier this year which claimed the life of a 55-year-old motorcyclist. Birkdale man John McKillop, a father-of-two, died when his motorcycle collided with a vehicle on Mount Cotton Rd, Mount Cotton at 1.20am on March 6 this year. Police allege the vehicle driven by the 20-year-old was travelling southbound when it hit Mr McKillop who was travelling in the opposite direction. Mr McKillop was transported to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical condition but died a short while later.