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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Chicken" and "Pork"? Sure, understandable... I guess. If they were going after, "Milk" that would be a whole other thing.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They did this in Germany! Oat milk can't legally be called "milk", so it's instead "oat drink".

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That seems ridiculous to me considering coconut milk has been called as such since the 1700s and I haven't seen a coconuts nipples.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] november@lemmy.vg 30 points 1 week ago
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

It absolutely is, especially since there are products with "milk" in their name that aren't edible (e.g. "Scheuermilch", apparently scouring cream in English). It's nothing but populism and lobbying.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

And almond milk is almost 1000 years old, and Middle-English called it "almonde mylk"

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/almond_milk

So yeah, Big Dairy propaganda