Meat is causing people to be illiterate.

Oatly is banned from labeling their products as oat milk because it confuses people. But if it's confusing reading the word oats and milk, yet you think it's real milk, does this mean meat is causing illiteracy issues? I'm starting to strongly suspect this meat business, I thought meat made you smart or at least that's what the industry says 🫪

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swirlie · 31-35, F

Oat milk was invented in the first place as a replacement for dairy milk, because some people are allergic to all dairy products or food containing dairy products.

Oat milk when rendered from oats, yields a pure white color after being ground into powder, then mixed with water and has the same creamy consistency of 3% homogenized milk which becomes controllable cream consistency without actually being cream. The more water that is added to the oat powder, the less-creamy the oat milk becomes, thereby enabling the equivalent organic alternative of 2% or 1% or skim.

Side by side with cow's milk in two glasses, oat milk looks identical to cow's milk. This enables one to pour oat milk on cereal or into a cup of coffee to achieve almost exactly the same taste and effect that cow's milk provides.

The reason I bring this up is because oat milk is not pretending to be real milk from a cow. Oat milk is declaring itself an organic alternative to dairy.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@swirlie Yes best way to describe it but try explaining that to people buying dairy milk from a store and getting it confused with something clearly called oat milk. The lawmakers said people were getting specfically confused, this means they were buying oat milk and mad cos it wasn't dairy

swirlie · 31-35, F

@SatanBurger
If they were buying a product labelled 'oat milk' but thinking it was dairy, then I wonder if they'd be just as confused if they bought distilled water thinking it was bottled water since both come in a similar sized jug?

If so, then we're talking about some serious stupid people here which lawmakers can really do nothing about except to offer them full-time employment in the Trump Administration.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@swirlie the news said that the reason for the change was that it made people confused and so they banned the use of the word milk on plant based products. This means that there were a large group of people who did buy it thinking it was dairy or something lol.

swirlie · 31-35, F

@SatanBurger
Somehow, I believe this.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@swirlie I was in customer service and know how stupid people can be. I mean now that i have some empathy I do know there's things like Parkinsons and dementia that can affect older people so I kinda give them slack sometimes.

But on several occasions I've had the dumbest interactions with people ever. Like one time I worked at a sandwich place and they had a special on garlic bread sandwich slices to make sandwiches out of. Which was really a sauce, we just took the sauce and put it on the bread and toasted it.

The confusion was so bad I picked out bread for people after awhile and just chose for them because I had to explain to at least a dozen people that it was a sauce, we just put it on the bread of your choice, then you choose toppings.

I said it like that and people were still confused. That was the first time I was genuinely creeped out and thought I must be in a simulation or dream or something. Not even my nightmares creeped me out that badly.

Like and some of this was full on arguments with people, almost getting into a fist fight with someone because they couldn't understand that it wasn't literal garlic bread but a sauce 😭☝😵‍💫

swirlie · 31-35, F

@SatanBurger
Not only were those people not likely sterilized at birth, they are allowed to cast a vote for who they thought should be the President of the United States.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@swirlie Yeah and I've long questioned if people are honestly intelligent enough to make their own choices. I believe some are. I love the ability to vote but you have to consider that others can vote too and not everyone has the ability to know what's going on in the world.

I'm thinking that it's not like these people are stupid, it's that they never engaged in their brain and developed skills needed to use critical thinking.