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Facility backed consuming European meat (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

veal

'meat' is the definition.
(veal is a kind of meat)

'facility backed consuming european' is the wordplay.
'facility' becomes 'lav' ('lav' can be a synonym of 'facility'**).
'backed' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'consuming' is an insertion indicator.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'lav' in reverse letter order is 'val'.
'val' enclosing 'e' is 'VEAL'.

(Other definitions for veal that I've seen before include "Calf's flesh as food" , "White meat" , "Calves' flesh as food" , "meat, R [ROSE] maybe" , "Calf flesh" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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