How many writers described her skin as milky white? Burn the books!
Comment on UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinks
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 14 hours agoAlmond 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.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You don’t think anything at all changed experientially when almond milk was first brought to market in 1998?
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 13 hours 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.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
For me, home production for personal use is different than commercial production because it isn’t subject to the same health and safety standards. When you take something to market, the consumer no longer has any relation to the production process — they never looked at the cookbook, or saw an almond. You’re exposing whole classes of people to something that they do not have the kind of intimate experience with a food you’re describing. Instead, almond milk is the result of some mysterious industrial process, rather than something that comes from a cheesecloth in your kitchen. I think, experientially, buying a carton of almond milk at a store is very different than making it at home.
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 13 hours 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’?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours 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.
demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 6 hours ago
People kinda forgot that medieval people couldnt just constantly rely on the lactate-carnist duploly and had several alternatives now considered “trendy” “chemical” products.