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Swiss Supreme Court Bans Animal-Specific Terms on Vegan Product Labels (vegconomist.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

They did this in Germany! Oat milk can't legally be called "milk", so it's instead "oat drink".

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That seems ridiculous to me considering coconut milk has been called as such since the 1700s and I haven't seen a coconuts nipples.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Happy now?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

I am not!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

It absolutely is, especially since there are products with "milk" in their name that aren't edible (e.g. "Scheuermilch", apparently scouring cream in English). It's nothing but populism and lobbying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

And almond milk is almost 1000 years old, and Middle-English called it "almonde mylk"

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/almond_milk

So yeah, Big Dairy propaganda