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The boomer crusade against alternative milks is one of the weirder forms of toxic masculinity and smacks of subservience to and brainwashing by the milk lobby.
They tried to narrowly define that can be called milk. Thankfully it did not pass.
As a funny aside, this was my autocomplete suggestions when looking up this bill:
I would imagine there is a funny story behind this.
Here in Germany they did succeed with it. Oat milk has to be called something like "Hafer-Drink" (note the anglicism) (literally "oat drink").
Yeah, but tbh, it kinda makes sense. You can't print something on the packaging that says something that's not the case. You can't call it "oat milk", because otherwise people should rightfully assume it was milk with some oat in it.
No, that wouldn't be "rightful". It's common knowledge that soy milk, oat milk, coconut milk and scouring cream (Scheuermilch in German) don't contain cow milk. And it was never an issue when coconut milk was the only alternative milk-like product that was widely available.
yeah, i see your point. interesting. i never thought of that before
This is why I enjoy it here.
Historically, milk has been used to refer to any liquid with a milky white color. This can be crushed up plants or other things. Milk of magnesia, for example. It is a very old use of the term and changing it to only refer to milk from an animal is more inacurate than letting it refer to these substances. Don't let the milk industry BS lead you to a false conclusion. Question what you're told.
Animal milk can call itself dairy if it wants to be specific. That's the word for animal milk only.
Ok i see, yeah, now that you mention it, we have "Löwenzahnmilch" (dandelion milk) in german, which refers to this:
But also, "dairy" doesn't work so well in other languages. I can't think of a german translation.
Here is your solution.
Fair enough about the German thing. I was specifically speaking about English, since it was about the US Congress trying to regulate the word. There may be a better argument for German, but it sounds like it's the same issue. From a quick search online, tierische Milch seems like the choice.
Imagine calling a non dairy liquid "milk" prior to ten years ago, not conceivable
Coconut milk, milk of magnesium, soy milk? Made up woke nonsense
yeah, tbf, "coconut milk" (which i believe to be older name than 20 years, maybe conceived or widespread in the 1960s) is a questionable candidate. What give you can call "coconut milk" milk, but not "soy milk".
Almond milk dates back to the middle ages
the name, or the product?
Both
'Made up'?
You mean other names were bequeefed upon us by lord god jesus christ?
Are you stupid or just forgot an '/s'?
I think your sarcasm detector needs tuning, it was pretty thick especially considering all of those have been around with those names much longer than that
Fair, I retract and apologise.
It is milk with some oat in it. The milk part of the oat. That's exactly what it is.
You mean people might think it's breast milk with some oat in it.
Rather than legislating plant milk, I suggest we legislate breast milk so that it legally has to have the word breast on the packaging.
Labelling it titty milk will only make me drink more of it
Duckduckgo made up a little song about milk and I'm glad you were there to witness it
That was the BEST 1:48 I’ve spent in a loooooong time.
the Dairy industry lobby is powerful.
A sad reminder that Aubrey Plaza did a Real Milk campaign.
All the Amish influence.
So many things boomers consider normal is just brainwashing from some lobby or other
I mostly agree with you, but it's not great to generalise about an entire generation some negative aspect of people that applies to many people, regardless of age.