• @[email protected]
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    124 days ago

    Good. If your coffee shop charges for milk alternatives, they care more about nickel-and-diming you than the environment.

  • @r0ertel
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    54 days ago

    I don’t know what vegan milk is, but I prefer soy milk in my coffee since it has a fattier mouthfeel without the calories. I guess it’s like whole milk taste with skim milk calories. My spouse prefers oat milk for the oatiness. Choices are good for customers.

    Also, you don’t have to be vegan to enjoy non cows milk. A great many of us “alternative” milk drinkers are simply actually allergic to milk.

  • TheTechnician27M
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    4 days ago

    Just to remind everyone that in addition to the ethical and environmental costs of dairy milk, the literal only two reasons dairy milk is cheaper than plant milk are economies of scale and subsidies. (edit: also not baking the environmental cost into the price via taxes, but plant milk still wins in muh free market.) Dairy milk right now is about as affordable as it’s going to get to produce. Whereas plant milk gets almost zero subsidization and is only continuing to explode in scale. Plant milk will inevitably overtake dairy milk in terms of cost, even compared to what dairy milk experiences now with immense scale and subsidies. It’s just objectively less resource-intensive.