• @Beekeeper_Dan
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    Need to keep the ag subsidies flowing so that rural areas keep voting conservative

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        The industry got too big and too reliant on subsidies. A reckoning will occur at some point, it’s just a matter of whether it’s announced ahead of time or surprises everyone.

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            Every day the reckoning will be worse than it would have been the day before. That’s why it should be planned and not A) ripped off like a bandaid or B) have it fail on its own.

            Right now the government is doing practically the opposite and reassuring and strengthening the bandaid despite the inevitable need for it to come off.

            I get it. I’m also on board with UBI. Hell, I’m even a vegan that isn’t calling for an immediate end to all subsidies for the ag industry even though a vast majority of it is in support of a practice that I believe to be highly unethical and horrendous. But I get that it can’t change overnight, but that doesn’t mean to keep kicking the can down the road either.

            The human cost then will be more than the human cost now. It just will be “future” humans instead of the current ones so they so keep supporting it and making it someone else’s problem.

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                Ok, leave a note behind to explain to your children’s family why they’re in extreme poverty because some folks didn’t want to gradually remove a subsidy in a controlled fashion. Again. You’re just punishing more future people. But I guess since you don’t have to meet them, you’re ok with sacrificing their livelihood.

                You will never get a UBI while large amounts are subsidizing specific industries. Wanna know where you can get that money though?

                The thing is, I don’t even think we disagree that much. You just are taking the one approach I advocated against (but still argued would be better than doing nothing; ie keeping the subsidies) and pretending that’s my whole argument. I argued for gradual removal of subsidies to correct the market over time. You are advocating for a scenario that likely will never occur without some other large scale disaster or giant swing in public consciousness (UBI will never occur prior to ag having a market bubble pop… one will never happen during our life, one has a chance to).

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          Too big and too reliant on subsidies is a feature, not a bug. You want your farmers producing a fairly large surplus most of the time, because the harm resulting from a major food shortage is catastrophic. A widespread drought, disease, natural disaster, crop failure, or other shortage needs to be made up with other foodstuffs.

          Subsidization incentivizes production even when market rates fall below profitability, which is what happens when production is significantly greater than actual demand.

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        Sorry, but that’s horseshit.

        Taking away dairy subsidies would drive up milk and milk product prices, pushing more people to buy alternatives instead. Any loss of employment in the dairy industry is balanced by new jobs in manufacturing plant milks and dairy alternatives. This isn’t people being replaced by robots, it’s cows being replaced by plants. You still need pretty much the same workforce to package and distribute it regardless.

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        New Zealand and Australia virtually eliminated agricultural subsidies and their industries are doing just fine.

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        Only 1% of americans work in the primary sector and that is not only comprised of farmers. Furthermore, there are more farming products than dairy, oats for oat milk have to be farmed somewhere as well.

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      It’s not as if Democrats don’t also throw plenty of bones to farmers.

      Even if the farmers themselves are likely to be relatively conservative, they’re such a politically sympathetic group that no one wants to be seen as “going after hard-working real American farmers!”. Things like the Iowa caucuses playing a huge role in national politics don’t help either (although the Dems have thankfully killed that).

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      It’s more of a matter of if food gets more expensive you’re more likely to be voted out of office

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    One thing nobody has commented on - how that article slips in a seemingly positive mention of Nestlé (they own the cafe that uses plant milks). That raised my eyebrows.

    • @assassin_aragorn
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      I’m beginning to notice a handful of company ties to “make perfect the enemy of good” takes like this.

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        It’s enough to drive one to schizophrenia. Everything is a hidden message

        C̵̡̢̡̢̙̰̻̘̠͎̟͖̯̉͐̉̊̓̎̽͂͆̈̄̔͊͊̃̔̈́́̂̑̿̐̈́͑͛̆̾̈́́͘̚̕͝͝ơ̴̢̧̨̢̟̳̜͙̝͚̟̞͖̞̲͙͍̠͎̞̫͙̮̦̥̯̹̟̦̘̮̖͛͋̏̂̈́̽̓͊͂̃̀̒́͒̏͛̓̐̅́̽͛̇͆̀̽̋͋̋̈́̍́̓͑̚̕͝ͅn̸̡̧̨̛̛̛͍̺̤͎̮͕̟͇̞̙̞̯̤̭̠̥̰̹͍̮͍͙̫̮͉̫̻͖̜̭̦̱͚͎͖͖͓̹̽͛̊̂̓̿̄̏̊̀̀͌̓̽̏͂̒̂̌̄̄̀̊̆̏͑̈́̊̊͌͒͗̀̎̈́̚̕͝͝͠s̴̡͔̗͖̝͖̫̩̲̗̪̤̯̳̼̲̼̈́́̅̇̿̀̎͗́͗͒̀̿̌̎͐͛̆͗͆̿̓̈͗͌̌͒͒́̚̕̚̚͝ṵ̸̢̥̭͎͍̲̟͍̹͙̱̦̤̮̜̖͕̪̱̼̞̜̖̹̥̜͍̝̑̄̆̍̉͒̍̌̅̏̌̊̇͑̄̂̇͌́̿̈́̾͂̏̒͛̐̐̉̏̕̕̚̚͜͜͝͠͝͝ͅͅͅm̵̡̡̨̻̱̹̙̭͚͔̣̘͎̬̖̝̲͈̦̱͓̤̤̲̲̫̫̩͔̮̻̂͋̄̀͐̀̔̿̊̾̋͐̃͆̕̕͜ͅe̸̢̡͇̤͔͈̮̥͓̙͓̻͙̹̦͔̼͔͛̉́̇ͅͅ

  • @seaQueue
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    The dairy lobby in the US is huge money. If you ever want to know why we’re making a seemingly stupid decision follow the money, look at the entrenched interests and read some history. We subsidize dairy farmers because we used to subsidize dairy farmers and they spent a bunch of their earnings lobbying for more subsidies.

  • @[email protected]
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    Except almonds. Almonds are terrible water wasters, and mostly grown in California where they can least afford the water.

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      Still more efficient on resource utilization than animal agriculture. If you hate almond milk for that reason, you should want the dairy industry completely abolished.

    • LanternEverywhere
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      Almond is the worst of the nut milks, but it’s STILL way better for the environment than dairy.

      • @Frigid
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        What you get in stores is not even really almond milk. Real almond milk would be way too expensive to be competitive.

        • @[email protected]
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          Exactly… Ughh I still fail to understand why almond milk is popular among vegans. It’s very expensive and doesn’t even taste that nice…

          • @DarthFrodo
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            True. Soy and oat milk can be very good, depending on the brand.

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              oat milk is the jammy out of all the alt milks imo

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                My favorite oat milk is Oatly Barista, the best soy milk I’ve tried is from Joya, but I haven’t seen it outside of Austria yet. Alpro is quite good and more widely available (at least in Europe). In North America, Silk seems to be great from what I’ve heard. Store brand soy milks tend to taste pretty bad from my experience here in Germany, but some of them might have improved since I tried them years ago.

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                Oatly and Califia both have great oat milks. They also have barista milks that substitute for half and half in coffee!

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              Even soy milk in the US isn’t really just soy milk. There are so much stuff added to it. It’s thick too.

              I grew up drinking a lot of real soy milk which has a watery consistency that I can get at some Vietnamese / Chinese grocery stores or tofu shops. Flavor is quite different too.

              Though I guess the US put thickeners and other stuff into theirs to help imitate milk

    • @jeffwOP
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      TIL industries create the demand for these products, not consumers

      • @Mandarbmax
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        I know you are joking but with how dairy lobbies get subsidies from the gov they kind of are making their own demand.

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          Unlike plant milk made from say soy or almonds. Those get no subsidies at all. Nope.

      • @dragonflyteaparty
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        The propaganda for milk (that’s still going) certainly had a big role to play.

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          I cannot help but be reminded of the games that Big Tobacco (and Big Fossil) played pre-90s, all through the 90s, most mostly lost. It used to be “what are you non-smokers complaining about? It’s not that bad, etc…” pre-90s. Then, finally most indoor smoking got banned, even in bars. Then the fight moved to “but second hand smoke is not that bad, etc…”

          Used to be there were tons of smokers in the United States. Now there are far less. I imagine dairy will go through a similar cycle…with the same efforts to distract and distort - even with a crisis of many related chronic diseases - see the “but almonds use so much water!” nonsense that is almost surely an industry placement.

          For another comparison to tobacco, I had many, many family members that worked in health care. Most places in health care allowed smoking, nearly everywhere, at one point. If you see what constitutes “food” and “nutrition” in hospitals, it is easy to draw comparisons. It is almost like they could not care less if you get sick and stay sick, since there is no money in prevention.

    • @assassin_aragorn
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      Sorry but you got two cows, so you’re obviously a paid shill for big dairy /s

    • trainsaresexy
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      Idk if it’s delicious. It’s good. Baileys is delicious. Hot chocolate is delicious. A cold glass of milk? Can’t say that craving comes up for me all that often.

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      I wouldn’t say it’s delicious… it’s meh-lk

    • @jordanlundM
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      N-e-s-t-l-é-s
      Makes the very best
      Economic Warfare

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      The average Joe has some say in it. When people buy factory farmed milk, they directly financially support the treatment of animals at these places. Imo people should learn in schools (or look for themselves) at footage from factory farms and slaughterhouses from their country to be informed about living conditions so they can make an informed choice if that’s worth it.

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        and if they don’t buy the dairy farmers get their subsidy anyway. like yeah i can make myself poorer buying unsubsidized milk, but kinda sucks you’re putting the problem on me.

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        When people buy factory farmed milk, they directly financially support the treatment of animals at these places.

        that’s not even true.

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          Where does the farm’s income come from?

          Do you imagine they’d get the same amount of income if all people stopped consuming their product tomorrow?

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              Tomayto tomahto. The grocery store bought the milk from factory farms with the money they get from their customers. At the end of the day the money from milk consumers still funds the animal abuse.

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                The grocery store bought the milk from factory farms

                i doubt it. they probably went through a supplier.

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                At the end of the day the money from milk consumers

                goes into a pile with all the money spent on bean juice and keeps all those people employed doing the same things they’ve been doing.

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                looks to me like you understand that this is a lie:

                When people buy factory farmed milk, they directly financially support the treatment of animals at these places.

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                  You’re really the personification of the word pedantic. I changed my poorly formulated sentence.

  • @MrMcGasion
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    My personal theory is that we subsidize dairy not for the milk, but for the cheese. As far as I’m aware you can’t make cheese out of plant milks, and we’ve gotten pretty reliant on cheese as a source of protein and other nutrients in our American diets - especially among children and lower income diets.

    • @isles
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      Look up: cheese caves. 👍

    • pjhenry1216
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      You can make plant-based cheeses. And some of them are pretty good. But they lack all of the same properties. Like, you can get a cheese that that when hot will stretch a little bit like the cheese on a pizza, but as it cools off it loses all of that elasticity and is not great for lukewarm pizza. You can get cheese that is pretty decent for lukewarm and hot pizza, but it doesn’t have that stretch. It more just rips apart. And you definitely don’t have the span of “flavors” of cheese or whatever you’d call it. Some of the big ones, sure, but again, they don’t have all the same physical properties.

      I don’t mind the loss of those properties, but many people do.

      Cheese isn’t a great source for protein compared to beans in regards to price though.

      Honestly, I think we subsidize the dairy industry simply because they’ve been lobbying so long. Meat is subsidized too. It’s the one market that the conservatives are fine with ignoring the mantra of “free market” and support regulating the hell out of it in whatever way supports the “farmers” (big farm is nothing like the labeling suggests and is all headed by big guys in suits who likely never have been on a farm in their life).

      • chaogomu
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        Beans can taste amazing when prepared by a competent chef, but often taste like shit when prepared wrong.

        Cheese, on the other hand, is much more forgiving of poor preparation. Eat it straight out of the package, sliced and on bread or crackers, melt it into sauces, or grill it, or any number of other uses.

        Simply put, cheese is fast and easy, and can elevate almost any other food.

        Also, try to get kids to eat beans. It can happen. But not easily, and often you have to do it in the form of chili, with loads of cheese.

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          You’re just describing American children raised in a poor diet. Beans are a staple food among not of the world population, including their children. They’re super easy to prepare as well. Talking about the extremely fatty and unhealthy cheese like that is probably one of the many reasons the US is obese and unhealthy.

          Cheese is not a healthy part of a diet in any quantity where it provides a significant protein of the person’s protein needs.

          • @CharlesDarwin
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            This. First of all, very few people are ever going to be deficient in protein, at least in the U.S. Secondly, cheese seems like one of the very worst sources. Animal sources in general are bad, of course.

        • @CharlesDarwin
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          I think it depends on context and how you are raised. I was given exposure to a broad array of vegetables and beans as a kid, and liked most of them, even as a kid. I think its a cultural thing - if you (or TV, or peers, or media) tell kids that “kids don’t like X”, well, they probably won’t.

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        Both meat and dairy are subsidized because they consume huge amounts of corn, and the corn industry is an even bigger lobby.

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        I seem to recall people are working on bacteria-produced casein, and so that may, if it could be done at scale, solve the ethical and environmental problems, but I wonder if casein in that form will be just as bad as dairy is in its “natural” form.

    • chaogomu
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      Government cheese has been a thing since at least the great depression.

    • rurutheguru
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      Cheese was one of our main obstacles toward cutting out dairy. I came across a vegan cheese sauce recipe that utilizes blended steamed potatoes & carrots for the texture and nutritional yeast and other spices for the flavor. Been using it for a few years now and haven’t looked back yet.

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        It’s hard to find good nutritional yeast though. Since they are quite expensive, it is not easy to try around until you find one, that does not taste like garbage.

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          Yes it’s an expensive purchase, but I buy it once every 6 months or so. It goes a long way and I use little (⅓ cup) at a time.

          Some of my family think we’re living large because we can “afford” cashew nuts, which we use for many purposes, but don’t think twice about spending 3 times more on meat every single week.

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            Yeah, once you found a brand, that tastes well, it’s not an issue anymore. But paying a lot just to notice, that it tastes disgusting, kinda sucks.

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      Protein can be found in much better food sources than dairy. It’s a shame the protein myth prevails in this country even into the 2020s…

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    Probably because everyone tried only the shittiest alt-malks, assume they are all bad, and somehow don’t get heartburn and diarrhea and gunky mouth and throat feel from cow milk. I save all my lactose intolerance suffering for cheese and ice cream.

    Seriously though it’s the same as people that say only bad things about tofu but have only eaten white American ‘recipes’ that genuinely suck. Meanwhile Asians happily inhaling literal tons of it prepared in actually good meals. Try making bread from scratch without salt (or salty ingredients) and that’s what tofu foods for the white market remind me of.

    • @OCATMBBL
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      Tofu is fine, but tempeh is almost as widely available in supermarkets, has a higher protein density, is fermented, and works in soooo many things. It’s also way easier to get the hang of marinating and cooking.

      I mention this only because I love it so much, and I’d love for people that shit on vegan food to give that a go (lightly pan fried, and then tossed in a gooey before sriracha-soy-peanut-butter-lime-brown-sugar sauce) and get back to me. I could eat it every night and never get tired of it.

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          Let me help!

          • 1 block tempeh, sliced down the middle long ways, and then clicked into little rectangle slices. Pan fry in a little oil of you choice.

          Combine for sauce (put in a bowl and toss the tempeh in it after - cooked peanut butter isn’t great, imo):

          • 1 part soy sauce or tamari
          • 1 part lime juice
          • 1 part sriracha
          • 1 part brown sugar
          • 2 parts peanut butter

          Get back to me. This is one of my absolute favorites!

          • @[email protected]
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            Thanks I’ll have to find time for shopping now. I only wish I could count on people to not angle grind off my bike lock while I’m in the store.

            • @OCATMBBL
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              One year later (looking through my comments) - how did it go?

    • @Chocrates
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      I was about to say, when making bread salt is like the only flavouring so they recommend not being too stingy. I do love tofu though. The texture is neutral and can be “improved” depending on the goal. The taste is pretty bland and it will taste like whatever you want it to be.

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        My gripe with tofu is that it always sticks to the pan.

        I’ve tried pressing the liquid out, freezing, and flouring/cornstarching it and that works to an extent but it’s more effort than I’d like for something that is basically sauce flavoured.

        • @OCATMBBL
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          Tofu is a pain. Try heating the pan significantly before adding oil, and then toss the food in on top of the oil shortly after.

          Alternatively, scallions in oil help to make a non stick coating. Or a lecithin-containing spray oil. The lecithin helps prevent sticking way more than the oil itself does.

          Or tell your pan to shut up, and either deep fry or air fry it.

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      everyone tried only the shittiest alt-malks

      well i dont have 5 euro to dish out on a carton of altmilk every time i want to make an omelette

      yall have an excess of money and it shows

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        More like gurgling stomach pain. That said in most cooking I generally just use cow milk and hope it goes better than drinking it straight. Most of them, even if they claim to be a 1:1 replacement can’t serve the same purpose in a lot of recipes. One time I was doing a midnight pantry raid and made Mac and white cheese with iirc almond milk. It became almost identical to white chocolate melted over noodles.

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    I had this fantastic plant-based milk product on my store shelves called “Not Milk”. I really enjoyed it. Had this mild coconut flavor which might turn off some (not me) but anyway, it’s gone now because it was too expensive for the market I’m in.

    Meanwhile gallons of milk flow for the same purpose, only subsidized for under half the cost per ounce.

    As we do, we stifle innovation ourselves based on our past.

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      check out your local Aldi. They’ve got a range of almond, soy, coconut and oat milk at very reasonable prices. I was loving coconut milk until my friend told me how high in saturated fat it is (like really high.) Since then I do about half coconut and half light almond for my oatmeal and I can’t say enough how good it tastes. I’m eating oatmeal as a dessert now sometimes because I like it so much.

      Edit: had originally said cholesterol but totally had meant saturated fat. Thanks to @DarthFrodo for bringing the error to my attention.

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          Depends on where they are grown.

          California is a huge Almond supplier, but they have had frequent droughts. People get angry when they are asked to conserve water and then everything they’ve conserved is used to grow a water-hungry crop.

          This could be solved by growing them somewhere else, or desalinating (California is a coastal state after all).

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        Plants don’t produce cholesterol, only animals. Coconut oil is high in saturated fat that seems to be bad for blood cholesterol levels, but coconut milk (for drinking, in cartons) has hardly any fat in it. The one I looked up has half of the saturated fat compared to 3,5% fat cows milk.

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          Thanks for the correction, I totally meant saturated fat but my brain shit the bed. I’ll correct my post and note the edit. Thanks again!

    • @Wogi
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      Butter and heavy cream don’t really have a good replacement, but regular milk has so many alternatives it’s crazy. Almond milk and oat milk I prefer to regular old milk.

      • @witten
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        Vegan butter or coconut oil sub well for butter, depending on the use. And canned coconut milk works pretty well for heavy cream in baked goods.

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      Check to see if your store has “Nextmilk” made by Silk. It is cheaper than “Not Milk” and tastes better!

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    Because lots of people in your country drink it, like it, and even more eat things made from it. Like cheese.

    “Two thirds of people can’t tolerate lactose” is utterly fucking meaningless in this context. Most of those are in Asia. Last I checked, it was countries giving out subsidies, not some nebulous world council.

    And nearly all farming gets subsidised, because that reduces reliance on external countries. You’ve seen what capitalism did to housing. You don’t want that to happen to food.

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    My takeaway from this is that Nestle probably doesn’t own any dairy companies, but probably does own a plant that makes oat milk. They keep all the profit in their own ecosystem by buying their supplies from themself and then get to tell us how green and thoughtful they are.

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    Are there actual studies showing that plant-based alternatives are better for health (for individuals that digest lactose just fine like me) ?

    I switched to alt-milks for ecological reason but media keep talking about the negative health effects of «ultra-transformed food», which alt-milk very much sounds like…

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    I prefer plant-based milk over dairy, it tastes better and it lasts longer. I tried plant based milk years ago and never went back. I’ve tried cashew, macadamia, rice, soy, almond, coconut, oat, and sunflower. Some of my favorites are vanilla almond, dark chocolate almond and cashew, vanilla macadamia, and vanilla coconut. My family still buys dairy milk, but we always bought plant-based butter. I buy cream cheese to use as bread spread.

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        True, idk how much of the content is actually milk, some milk has tasted watery, especially rice milk and almond milk.

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          It varies from brand to brand. Some, usually the cheaper ones, are really just water and the flavor carrying plant and those are gonna be watery. The more “milk-like” tasting brands add canola oil to make it more fatty, just like milk has fats.

          Just like buttermilk is more watery than whole milk since it contains less fat.

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          I’ve found oat milk (specifically Oatly) to cook fairly well. I’ve made bechamel based sauces, puddings, custards, etc. with it plenty of times and always had good results.

          • @[email protected]
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            puddings

            I thought for puddings soy works better because of a enzyme in oat milk that prevents pudding from going solid. If it works for you, great.

            • @time_fo_that
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              Oh the one time I used instant pudding mix it didn’t work. It only works with mixes that you cook or making it fully from scratch. Works great with rice pudding!

          • @Bytemeister
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            Fuck yeah. I had Oatly once like 3 years ago and decided that was the end of sucking on cow tits for me.

      • @deadlyduplicate
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        21 year ago

        Same that is my favorite and I don’t think we are alone because its always sold out at the stores while the other plant milks remain untouched.

    • Too Ren
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      61 year ago

      Strongly disagree on it tasting better, the only thing I like anywhere near as much is chocolate almond.

      • @LongPigFlavor
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        I understand. It is a matter of personal preference. Chocolate almond is pretty good and I liked dark chocolate almond even more.

    • @bemenaker
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      There is zero reason to drink milk past infancy. Plant based milks suck for cooking.

      Edit:

      That came across wrong. If you like drinking milk, so be it. There used to be a big push that you need to drink milk. Some of it by the dairy lobby, but also the food pyramid thing. Milk is dense nutritionally, yes, but we don’t have a need to drink it, was the point I was trying to say. I know that isn’t pushed as much today, but I was definitely a generation raised being told that you must drink milk, it’s a necessity.

      • @LongPigFlavor
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        Or you could just live and let live, fam. Why be so judgmental?

        • capital
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          I said the same thing to my neighbor when he caught me tossing my trash in his back yard. Like, what the fuck dude? Just chill.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Most people prefer the taste and it’s often more calorically dense? And yeah, plant based sucks for cooking. I mostly use milk products (half and half, cream) in cooking, and plant based is not it for cooking.

        I’m a pretty devout meat eater, I will 10000% give up eating meat before giving up dairy. Also, fwiw, we do need to eat less meat and use fewer animal products, but lets not gaslight ourselves about it.

        • @[email protected]
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          There are plant milks and creams for cooking purposes. As for the taste, if you feel plant milks have overpowering taste, you can mix multiple different types. For example, when we have made white sauce for lasagna, we use soy-, oat- and almond milk.

          I haven’t used dairy in a long time, so I can’t think of anything where plant based products couldn’t be used as a reasonable replacement (apart from cheese, there the options are severely lacking)

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Have you tried Miyoko’s Creamery brand cheese? Some of the best vegan cheese I’ve ever had. Also, if you haven’t tried vegan cheese in some years, you might be surprised how much better these companies have gotten at the taste and texture.

      • Too Ren
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        41 year ago

        grrr someone likes something I don’t like grrr

  • @J12
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    171 year ago

    I haven’t had a glass of milk in years. It kinda grosses me out, but I love some cheese. But I’m doing my small part in not buying gallons of milk.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      I actually did a informal survey at work when I was buying milk. Out of 40 people, only two have bought milk (like whole or skim) in the past year. Some did milk alternatives. Some bought half and half. But very little did pure milk.

      Not sure who the milk drinkers are.

    • @Son_of_dad
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      Currently I buy it cause I have young kids, but my wife and I drink oat/almond. Kids are picky about plant milk