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Calling it milk also encourages people to give these products to infants in the mistaken belief they are an acceptable substitute for real milk. Of course they
by cgh 8y ago
Calling it milk also encourages people to give these products to infants in the mistaken belief they are an acceptable substitute for real milk. Of course they aren't, as real milk is nutrient-dense and nut "milks" are essentially water unless they are fortified.
Also, almond farming is remarkably water-hungry. 10% of California's water use is tied up in growing almonds.
- grogenaut 8y agoWon't someone please think of the children!!! Do you have any evidence of infant mortality or under nourishment because a parent mistook almond milk or other for formula or regular milk?
- undersuit 8y agoThere have been vegan couples keeping their children on a vegan diet. But I also think banning milk in the labeling of plant-milks is ridiculous. http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/08/child.starved/ http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/08/child.starved/
- cannonedhamster 8y agoAmazingly there have been non vegan couples that malnourished their children because they are stupid too. It's only a big deal because people like to hate on vegans. Stupid parents are stupid parents.
- jonknee 8y agoYou also shouldn't be hanging out in the dairy aisle if you're looking to feed an infant...
- undersuit 8y agoWhile people have fed their children plant-milks in an attempt to keep them vegetarian and the results on the kids are tragic, removing Milk from the names of plant-milks isn't going to save kids. If the parents can't research enough to know their children will not thrive on the nutrients in plant-milks(I would also advise against using regular milk as a comprehensive source of nutrients too) then those children will befall other tragedies because of their parent's; not because for a few years we were crazy enough to allow almond latex to be sold as almond milk.
- taysic 8y agoI wonder though it the effect of the hormones they give to cows to produce more milk has a healthy affect on children.