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WCDT June 14th - June 18th (4546-4550)
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 15 Jun 2021, 19:48 ---Lewis Black has a bit where he explains that there's no such thing as Almond Milk, because "there ain't no almond titties!"
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Didn’t some idiot try to get something along these lines passed into law a while back? In one of the southern us states, I mean.
Something about consumer confusion over the origins of almond milk vs cow’s milk…
Gus_Smedstad:
My understanding was that it wasn't so much idiocy, so much as commercial interest. That is, lobbyists for dairy producers have been trying to get laws like that on the books. The cited reason was "confusion," but it's really just protecting the branding and health connotations of milk.
They aren't entirely wrong. Milk - cow, goat, what have you - has lots of things in it that aren't in substitutes. A lot more protein than almond milk, for example, though Soy is fairly comparable in that regard. Milk naturally has calcium in it. Substitutes often add calcium, but it's not there to start.
Milk evolved as a complete food. Baby mammals survive on nothing but milk. Various milk substitutes never are. They aren't intended to be, if you need to raise a baby and don't want to use milk, you use formula, not almond milk.
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 16 Jun 2021, 09:44 ---
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 15 Jun 2021, 19:48 ---Lewis Black has a bit where he explains that there's no such thing as Almond Milk, because "there ain't no almond titties!"
--- End quote ---
Didn’t some idiot try to get something along these lines passed into law a while back? In one of the southern us states, I mean.
Something about consumer confusion over the origins of almond milk vs cow’s milk…
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It was the USDA and it was because the dairy industry was behind it claiming "consumer confusion" over milk being anything but lactated fluid from a mammal. It was all about protecting their herds and nothing else...agriculture has a huge pull in politics, with both parties.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 13 Jun 2021, 21:43 ---So Pintsize buys bodies from the back of some guy's van - of course he does, what else would a Pintsize do? :laugh:
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What'll ya bet he discovers that it's May's old chassis, with a different dermal covering and no boobs?
Farideh:
I kinda doubt that, May's old chassis burst into flame. Probably wasn't salvageable after that.
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