Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.vg to Vegan@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year agoSwiss Supreme Court Bans Animal-Specific Terms on Vegan Product Labelsvegconomist.comexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down13
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkSwiss Supreme Court Bans Animal-Specific Terms on Vegan Product Labelsvegconomist.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.vg to Vegan@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square37linkfedilink
minus-squareStern@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·1 year agoThat seems ridiculous to me considering coconut milk has been called as such since the 1700s and I haven’t seen a coconuts nipples.
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoIt 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.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agoAnd 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
That seems ridiculous to me considering coconut milk has been called as such since the 1700s and I haven’t seen a coconuts nipples.
Happy now?
I am not!
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.
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