• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Because drinking “milk” from nuts and oats isn’t weird?

    People have been drinking animal milk for thousands of years so the weird ones are those pretending some heavily processed industry process isn’t weird.

    • friendlymessage@feddit.org
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      7 months ago

      heavily processed

      Always great to put that into arguments. It doesn’t really mean anything but it sounds dubious.

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          7 months ago

          It’s called oat milk because it’s a nut-based beverage deliberately designed to mimic many of the properties and uses of actual cow’s milk. It’s not like oat milk is literally just juice pressed from oats. There are a whole series of steps, added ingredients, and chemical processes meant to make the resulting product as interchangeable for cow’s milk as possible.

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      7 months ago

      “Milk” from nuts and oats is just a word. Call it oat juice, oat extract, make up a new word and call it oat zligbab. The actual thing being drunk is not far from the realm of things we already drink and eat. Getting hung up on it being called “milk” is a superficial and disingenuous argument against it.

      If you want to compare the extremes of industrialized processes, are you familiar with commercial dairy farming?