Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule
disgrunty@lemmy.world 1 year agoI know a person who thought that the “plant milks” are flavours of regular milk until it was explained to them. Like chocolate milk.
All people are at least a little stupid. We’re all stupid in our own way. Something that seems obvious to you and I may seem mind-boggling to someone else.
Law has a concept of the average idiot (cannot remember the real term). When applying confusion as a risk. Honestly milk has been used so much in English. (Coconutsand other things) I think that would fail.
I ANAL though.
Its more likely that oat milk is intentionally selling as a mamory milk alternative. That was made as an argument. But it is clearly a biased response from the court.
Tbf especially with “almond milk” I could 100% see that. Honestly it’s more logical than “they squeeze all the juice out of the almonds” (I have no idea the process for making almond milk lmao ykwim), someone seeing it and saying “Almonds huh? Crazy, what flavor will they think of next? I’d have chosen hazelnut” is really not that big of a jump.
Honestly I’m more surprised I didn’t think that, but iirc I was informed about it through a vegan friend before I even saw it in the store.
Would have been hilarious if big dairy brought them into the trial as an “expert witness”.
“Yes, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, I am a real life strawman.”
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah there are idiots, but what’s the harm? They may be shocked to find there’s 0 dairy, but his does that impact them? The nutrition info is on the label, as is the ingredients.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
a lot of people are just extremely insecure about their food habits, the idea of eating something they’re not used to genuinely makes them freak out
it’s something i had to ease myself out of, and my dad still can’t get over.