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Yes, they should be forced to pay for the things normally required of an employer. Including reasonable meals during business travel. The individual employee can choose on their own to be vegan or vegetarian, or to eat meat.

Why should the individual rights of the employee be surpassed by the rights of the powerful employer?

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If you mean "rights" in a legal context, nowhere does an employee have a right to be reimbursed. The closest governing law here is fair employment, and this isn't anywhere close to that.

edit: so long as work-related expenses doesn't sum out to a minimum wage violation

I meant it in the sense of the right to choose something as basic as what they eat while traveling.

This is an insane overreach of the employer/employee relationship, and the only reason it is getting a pass here is because the "right" kind of politics are behind it.

>>> nowhere does an employee have a right to be reimbursed

Actually, there is. There are rules on expenses and meal. Probably not in most of the USA but the rest of the world is a thing.

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