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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ages like milk...

Drink a full glass of milk at every meal. Otherwise, your bones will turn to pudding and you'll get kidnapped at the mall because you'll be too soft to put up a fight. Or whatever scare scenarios Big Milk pushed in the US in the 80s and 90s.

Now everyone's drinking nut and oat milk because of health reasons and also drinking the milk of another mammal is kinda weird.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago (110 children)

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.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

it's water pressed through oats/nuts to add a little flavor, not from a nut teet.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, with advanced enough genetic engineering, we might be able to make nut teets a thing...

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[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

heavily processed

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

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Making things requires a process‽ Can't explain that!

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

Points for the interrobang! :)

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 15 points 1 week 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?

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Biologically it's extremely weird to drink another animals milk. No other mammal does that.

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I mean soy milk has been around since the 14th century.
Processing and industrialization is something that's happened to most things in our food chain, including actual milk.

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