Oat has quite a pleasant taste, works well in coffee plus a much smaller environmental impact seems like the logical choice.

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    1 year ago

    It pains me that even though every single of the alternatives uses less resources and should actually be cheaper to produce (not only ecological, but also economical!) they are typically way more expensive than dairy.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism
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      Assuming you’re in the US: Because the government subsidises dairy, you know, with your tax money.

      It’s the same reason there’s corn syrup in fucking everything.

      In a way, simply existing in the US is not vegan.

    • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
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      41 year ago

      In Germany most stores have oat milk that’s cheaper than their cheapest dairy! Even though oat milk is taxed at 19% while dairy at 7% I think.

      • vxnxnt
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        41 year ago

        A bit off-topic: there have also been initiatives to reduce the tax for oat milk. My favorite example is when multiple cafes came together for a protest to simply sell coffee with oat milk with a 7% tax instead of 19% (they sued themselves afterwards).

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      Not just that, they’re often way less nutritionally useful. Nearly all alternative milks have very low protein content. It would be trivially cheap to add in a small amount of whey protein or use less sugar, but for some reason I haven’t been able to find a brand that does. At most they focus on making it analogous to milk when it comes to frothing for coffee…