Many people, including me and most Europeans, have coevolved with dairy farming such that we carry a gene variant that makes us produce the enzyme lactase throughout our lives rather than just in infancy when we need it to process our mothers' milk.
Fascinating. But now we're perfectly capable of drinking equally tasty substitutes that don't involve cruelly exploiting animals.
Fine. But you have a bit of a history of producing descriptions of meat-eating or milk-drinking that are intended to reflect and produce a disgust reaction.
Ants milk aphids like we milk cows.
The fiends.
Maybe it's not for you but there clearly is no shortage of people discovering non-dairy milk and enjoying so much they keep coming back for more and more. That's why sales are surging massively and dairy sales are plummeting. I don't think people would keep on drinking it if they didn't like it.
Yoghurt sales have plummeted by more than £50m as an increasing number of Britons switch to vegan diets, a report has revealed.
Changing tastes and an increase in lactose intolerance has seen more people move towards milk and dairy free alternatives, leading to a 193 million fewer yoghurts being sold to shoppers in 2019.
Yoghurt sales fall victim to veganism, new figures show
Yoghurt sales have plummeted by more than £50m as an increasing number of Britons switch to vegan diets, a report has revealed.www.telegraph.co.uk
I find certainly do find the treatment of animals in some farms disgusting, particularly ones in the more industrial scale factory farms (where most of the meat eaten comes from). Only yesterday there was a report on a 'free range' chicken farm in the UK that was horrendous. Aren't you equally appalled? And they were supposed to be a 'kinder' farm!
I am appalled by all kinds of things that go on in modern farming, but does that mean any old response to it is ok? Doesn't it actually mean that it's really important for responses to it not to be inaccurate?
Too much sense. I see a thread ban in the offing.
Do you have any figures to back that up?
Feel free to invest heavily in the dairy industry if you're so sure.
Milk has a PR problem. Once a staple of the British household, milk consumption in the UK has fallen steadily over the last 70 years. In 2016, fresh milk sales were down by £54 million, according to research from The Grocer. In January of that year, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) announced that one in ten British dairy farms had closed since 2013. Despite the UK being the third largest producer of milk in the EU, the AHDB published a report this July stating that, “the free-from dairy market has been developing rapidly and has been consistently in double digit growth for the past few years.” The British public has spoken. Cow’s milk isn’t the essential it once was.
What It’s Like to Run a Dairy Farm When No One Drinks Milk Anymore
As milk sales decline and dairy-free diets become more popular, what does the future look like for Britain’s dairies?www.vice.com
Amid slumping dairy sales, farmers are moving onto other careers. One dairy farmer leaves the industry every week, new research finds.
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) — a levy board funded by farmers — surveyed major milk buyers to learn more about the industry. AHDB discovered there are around 8,820 dairy producers in Great Britain. This figure has dropped by 30-35 since February.
The number of dairy cows in England has also declined. Defra statistics from June showed that the population of dairy cows who are more than two-years-old has dipped by 1.1 percent.
The Struggling Dairy Industry Is Losing One Farmer a Week
Dairy farmers are leaving the industry at the rate of one a week. Those producing cow's milk are moving onto other careers amid slumping dairy sales.www.livekindly.co
The meat industry is riddled with cruelty. Which part of that statement is inaccurate?
What's in the drinks though? We did a blind taste test on them as milks in work and I got a red card for my language when I drank the oat and the soya. The almond one was passable for me as I like almonds. I like milk as a drink but I know a lot of folk really don't get on with milk as a refreshing drink. It's each to their own innit.
Sales of unpasteurised were going mad.
It's really not a fashion fad though. People don't keep on buying something they don't like. It's part of a huge shift that's going on in the UK. Three years ago, you'd be hard pressed to find any vegan food in any fast food restaurant anywhere, and now it's just about everywhere,with more outlets stocking more and more vegan food.It's a fashion fad though isn't it. It was only five minutes ago that the chattering classes were drinking milk straight out of the cows tit probably because some celebs were spouting it's eternal youth juice qualities
Ok, try again, but this time try to stick to actual milk volume production, rather than loss in profits, due to price wars in supermarkets.Feel free to invest heavily in the dairy industry if you're so sure.
Meanwhile: The businesses proving that vegan= high growth in 2020
It is fashionable/on trend though currently isn't it and much of that increase in availability has been through satan's cock sucking marketing (Thanks Bill) company's pumping the vegan pound for every beat of it's meat free heart if the truth be known. A lot of those company's are just jumping on the bandwagon whist continuing to trough out the same goods that you see as part of the problem. Gregg's haven't stopped sticking sausage in the bake bean and cheese slice. (thank god), M&S are still selling corned beef to old ladies at 3 times the price of Aldi alongside their vegan peasnap and balsamic vinegar windfall oakleaf crisps. Let's not forget the rainbow wrap either
Soya milk - and other non dairy milks - haven't happened overnight. People have been drinking the stuff for years on end, and as the tastes have improved more people are switching - or supplementing - their diets. Same with vegan food.It is fashionable/on trend though currently isn't it and much of that increase in availability has been through satan's cock sucking marketing (Thanks Bill) company's pumping the vegan pound for every beat of it's meat free heart if the truth be known. A lot of those company's are just jumping on the bandwagon whist continuing to trough out the same goods that you see as part of the problem. Gregg's haven't stopped sticking sausage in the bake bean and cheese slice. (thank god), M&S are still selling corned beef to old ladies at 3 times the price of Aldi alongside their vegan peasnap and balsamic vinegar windfall oakleaf crisps. Let's not forget the rainbow wrap either
Yes there is a rise in people who are making changes to their eating habits based upon their conscience relating to climate change but they are a percentage of that on-trend shift in consumer habits not the entirety of it. Most of the people I know who use milk alternatives are doing it for fad diet purposes and all but one are meat eaters.
If people want to think that by going vegan they're part of a global movement then that's great, I think it's probably a good vehicle for change for some folk if they think they're doing it as a social concience movement, and I agree there are things we need to do about food production and the state of the planet but the rise in veganism isn't solely driven by people making those choices.
It's on trend and I would like to know how many of them are still vegans in 5, 10, 15 years time? This happened when we were teens didn't it with Mozzatarianism? Every other kid in school was a vegi for a term when I was in 5th year. All the edgy girls were eating nut roast and hedgehog crisps.
Anyway like I say, each to their own and I applaud your stance on this but to think that part of the current shift isn't being driven by marketing honchos and a trend that will itself change like the eating habit changes you've pointed out with milk is a bit too hopeful for me.
You really haven't got a clue what you're talking about. The rise in veganism isn't the result of some top marketing agency dreaming up a killer campaign that involves supermarkets suddenly having to stock new foods.
Today, the concept of producing a drink directly from oats instead of first feeding oats to a cow and letting the cow process them into milk is an option but back when we started in the 1990s most people thought we were totally crazy.
The Oatly Way | Oatly | United Kingdom
Seriously, oat drinks are plant-based products created to be in tune with the needs of both humans and the planet. Which if you think about it is pretty cool.www.oatly.com
See, this is where I fail with dairy.
But the cows do a much better job of it than we currently can...I like this quote:
Are you actually incapable of participating in a debate, without insulting those who disagree with you? It seems that every time someone produces facts to debunk your nonsense, you either insult them, ban them or both.You really haven't got a clue what you're talking about. The rise in veganism isn't the result of some top marketing agency dreaming up a killer campaign that involves supermarkets suddenly having to stock new foods.
More people are turning veggie/vegan for a variety of reasons most of which I assume are beyond your simplistic reasoning.
Here. Educate yourself.
Veganism: Why are vegan diets on the rise?
More and more people are buying plant-powered products. What’s behind the rise?www.bbc.co.uk
