Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinks
www.independent.co.uk
The UK’s highest court has sided with the dairy industry in the long-running row
    • kata1yst@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      4 days ago

      Almond milk has been called ‘milk’ since it was first written about in the 13th century.

      There is no logical reason people need the distinction made clearer 800 years later.

        • kata1yst@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          9·
          4 days ago

          What do you think changed?

          From my perspective, people made this and used this in their own homes. It was in cookbooks. Being able to buy it in a store doesn’t change the context of 800+ years of history.

            • kata1yst@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              10·
              4 days ago

              But in what way does that change the meaning of the established linguistics? That’s the part I’m struggling to grasp. I understand the commercial milk producers wanting to muddy the waters from a competitive perspective, but why should you or I want almond milk, or other plant based milks, called something not ‘milk’?

                • kata1yst@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  3·
                  4 days ago

                  Hmm. I’m afraid this is where we’re going to disagree. I don’t agree milk needs a legal definition. I don’t agree that consumers need protection from the word ‘milk’ being attached to other products, especially plant based milks that are generally clearly labeled and have hundreds or more years of context in our language.

                  Hell. There’s ‘human milk’, ‘goat milk’, ‘yak milk’, etc.

                  If something needs to change, it should be that we need to now call it ‘cow milk’ and truly protect the consumer from confusion.

            • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              1·
              4 days ago

              Unless you’re drinking milk from the cow’s tit, your milk is very mucg an industrial product to make it shelf stable and consistent. People have a totally wrong idea of what real milk feels or tastes like or what’s involved in its production. At least oat milk is literally just filtered porridge you can make at home.

    • OmegaMouse@pawb.socialEnglish
      16·
      4 days ago

      Peanut butter isn’t butter, but it’s called that because enough people agreed to call it so. It’s a useful way to referring to something that has similar properties. Likewise, if I ask for a coffee I’ll continue to ask for oat milk and not ‘oat drink’ as the latter sounds stupid.