• errer@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    This is actually great news because it means competing coffee shops will likely do the same. I’ve been charged up to $2 to replace milk with oat milk before at local coffee shops. Fuck that.

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        14 days ago

        You can always just go without milk if you want to be Ethical.

        Or water 🤷

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Yay!

    But fuck Starbucks for just a litany of reasons so it will never make a difference to me. I own a coffee maker, a blender and a thing of pumpkin spice so I can make their whole menu in minutes for 1/10th of the cost.

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    15 days ago

    LOL aka raising ALL the prices to spread the cost to everyone. which they regularly do anyway

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      Dairy milk requires billions of subsidies and uses ungodly amounts of water and land but sure complain about oat milk.

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        15 days ago

        When I did some research on dairy alternatives a few years ago, oat milk had the least environmental impact overall. Almonds are terrible due to massive water usage needed to grow the almond.

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          14 days ago

          Oat and soy milk are the most environmentally friendly and yes 95% of the soy that is grown in South America cutting down the amazon goes to feed to cattle.

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            So, how to know for sure that your culinary soybean didn’t come from the Amazon, given that soy seems to be a tropical crop?

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              14 days ago

              Soy isn’t a tropical crop, it’s actually farmed pretty heavily in the US as it’s a good rotation crop with corn.

              The issue the person above was calling out is in Brazil they also farm a lot of soy to feed the tons of cattle they have. Soy in general isn’t a problematic produce to grow/eat.

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                14 days ago

                Yes I knew all that (except the bit about corn rotation). But presumably nobody is feeding oats to cattle, so there’s less risk that you’ll be inadvertently funding deforestation when you buy them.

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                  14 days ago

                  Ahh missed what you were getting at, but oats are commonly used for feed too. Basically anything and everything will be used as feed (it’s how we get mad cow disease - cows being fed cows).

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    14 days ago

    Sweet! Now I can finally afford the luxury of not shitting my brains out from a morning dose of lactose.