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They've done this in the UK. It's all oat drink, and soy drink, because animal product consumers are so fragile they hate the thought of people enjoying things that don't include animal products.
They tried to ban veggie sausages from being called sausages FFS...
They tried to ban veggie sausages from being called sausages
It's so wild that they can brand their mystery meat tubes whatever the fuck they want, like, in my country you can call a sausage a "veal liver sausage" if there is 0% actual baby cow liver inside, but the monent you call a sausage-shaped piece of soy with a common sausage spice mix that's supposed to be prepared like a sausage anfd that tastes so similar to sausage that i don't want to eat it a "veggie sausage", you've crossed a red line and are "misleading the consumer" because they could accidentally buy murder-free treats.
It's so fuckin' weird, just reminds me of how cheesemakers back in the day demanded that American cheese be referred to as embalmed cheese
Processed cheese was the compromise
They did the same in Denmark, and then when milk sales didn't pick up (because why the fuck would they?) they tried to move into the market with their own brand called "Jörd" (meaning eärth/dïrt). It's a shitty product though, so people don't buy it. The commercials are funny though, because you can just see how a boardroom full of farmers designed it. "Yeah it's hippy shit, throw in some words about nature and some hot hippy chick. That'll get them!"
I agree with this. I understand why everything was branded as a meat replacement, but that just lead to the promise of meat taste and texture that I don't think has ever been satisfyingly achieved. "Oat drink" tells you what you're getting so your average meat-pilled flesh-maxxer doesn't feel betrayed. It can be enjoyed on it's own merits.
That was my experience when I was veggie for a few years; Meat substitutes weren't good substitutes and I didn't start to enjoy them until I learned to appreciate them on their own merits.
Except for the fact that we have been referring to liquid from plants as "milk" for centuries. Nobody batted an eye at soy milk in all these years, but suddenly it's supposedly weird or trying to replace cow milk... It's just not. I get the issue with branding vegan food as a meat replacement, but plant milk was never that.
If you buy oat milk and expect some sort of cow milk you should lose your driving license
love that this guy's pivoting to just getting anti vegan brownie points by passing laws that effectively do nothing except inconvenience soy milk companies, really hitting all the boxes on the grifter arc bingo
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/549/text?s=1&r=29
Defending Against Imitations and Replacements of Yogurt, milk, and cheese to Promote Regular Intake of Dairy Everyday
You can't just skip entire words for the sake of an acronym! I'm irrationally angry at this!
Congressional staffers must have degrees in backronyming.
It’s one of the things chat gpt is quite good at. I wouldn’t be surprised if a staffer hasn’t figured that out as well
Doing anything about abortion, trans rights or stopping a FUCKING GENOCIDE?!?
Nah, gotta rename "Oak Milk" to "Oak Milk-like product"
The bill passes, soy milk rebrands itself as doujiang - a traditional nutritious drink from China, its popularity explodes, the dairy reign of terror ends
give me all your east asian food
The man-milking lobby is going to hear about this!
i can't not think of IDF Cum Squads when someone mentions man-milking smh my head
First they came for the oat milk Then they came for the milk of magnesia Then they came for the milkweed... Then they came for me (milky complexion).
If you ever supported this guy, please raise your hand so we can publicly mock you. This is your penance.
It's okay to be fooled by his mesmerizingly large body, but we still gonna mock you
The trick is to be nakedly cynical towards everyone so that nobody can ever accuse you of having hope for a brighter future.
I wonder what % of people look at a soy milk carton and think "it's milk! says so right on the label"
Is... is he making the "almonds don't have tits" bit from The Ranch into public policy?
This proposal is blatantly antisemitic, effectively genociding the IOF corpse milking squad by banning their name. Fetterman is worse than Hitler, almost as bad as Corbyn.
CALLING LIQUID FROM PLANTS "MILK" IS NOT A NEW CONCEPT YOU FUCKING MORON AND PEOPLE AREN'T BUYING PLANT MILK BECAUSE THEY THINK IT'LL TASTE LIKE COWS MILK IN FACT MOST PEOPLE BUY IT SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE IT DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME QUALITIES AS COWS MILK YOU IDIOT YOU FUCKING IMBECILE YOU ABSOLUT DOOFUS I AM BEGGING YOU TO GO LOOK INTO THIS SHIT JUST ONCE BEFORE YOU SPOUT SOMETHING THIS DUMB. STOP CONTROLLING MY LANGUAGE
I don't know a lot about the english "milk"-word but I do know a bit about its germanic root and at least there "milk" might even first have referred to liquid from plants, and THEN we transferred it to also entail that from animals. Seens like there is a case for that in english, since the usage in the 1200's meant "Milk might even first have referred to liquid from plants, and THEN we transferred it to also entail that from animals."
And we know "soy milk" has been a thing since the 1880's. AHHHHH
This is so fucking stupid. Yeah, people are just too dumb to understand that soy milk and almond milk contain no dairy. Are you gonna rename peanut butter? There's no more pressing issue than renaming shit. These people need to be hit in the head.
Are you gonna rename peanut butter?
Several EU countries with strong agriculture lobbies have laws like this on the books, and that usually leads to peanut butter being renamed peanut spread or peanut pulp.
I always thought it was weird that lefties got behind this guy when I remember him years back on the Colbert show bragging about the public-private partnerships he had pulled off. Like it was good he had helped his town and all, but it wasn't in anyway Left.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130306219
Government mandating that my Almond Milk now be called Almond Squeezins'
Almond jizz
real monkey's paw moment when Fetterman accidentally unleashes the new product line of plant-based cums on the yankoid populace
Finally, people who abuse cows for a living can do it without shame 🥰
Reading "Dairy Pride" I was very shortly thinking about trans-cows and rainbows and lqbtmoo and so on.... And then came to think that just too many people will not think this is funny, so i wont go into details.
I can’t believe I ever saw this man as my large son
They hit him with the brain-pudding gun and its been straight downhill ever since.
The radical American left in action
This huge lad drinks a gallon of milk before work every morning to be the best congress-ogre he can possibly be
America's most insidious domestic bourgeoisie comprise the dairy and corn industries
soyboys are hurting the cow abuser's corporations livelihoods by calling their nut milk, milk