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rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Eh, I agree. I’ll still call it “oat milk” but I don’t think they should be allowed to call it “milk” in any form. I get they have quirky marketing and, IMHO, a great product, but allowing a corporation to use a work like that laissez-faire is pretty dangerous: oat milk isn’t naturally occuring and their product has lots of extra stuff added in (sweeteners, fortifiers, etc), neither of which should be true for a productive called “milk”.

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blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What about coconut milk?

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- rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Natural and unadulterated. So, yeah.
  
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wpb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

but I don’t think companies should be allowed to sell it as “milk” in any form

Well sure, and they haven’t been able to in almost a decade. This court ruling is about something else.

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tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Have the courts come to an actual definition of what (animal) milk actually is? Last I read, neither EU or UK could define it. Milk’s content differs so much from brand to brand and there’s no set standard. Presumably other than it comes from an animal of some kind.

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- rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  …defines “Milk” as meaning exclusively the normal mammary secretion obtained from one or more milkings without either addition thereto or extraction therefrom.
  
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  - tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thank you. That was actually weirdly interesting in terms of the specificity (while also being quite broad). I can’t imagine how many hours and meetings and people were involved in that.
    
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Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
yes! we shall stop the capitalists by monitoring their language! this time we’ll get em!

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