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The Dirty Truth About Oat Milk
- wodenokoto 8y agoGranted, I only skimmed the headlines, but it didn’t seem like there was any dirty truths anywhere. This seems to be a puff piece on how great oat milk is, not an article about hidden problems with it.
- kencausey 8y agoWhat? I considered posting earlier because after reading the piece the one thing it isn't really about is oat milk. The article is all about a more complex crop rotation to reduce crop nutrient loss and polluting runoff. Apparently an earlier article mentioned a previous crop rotation proposal that argued for adding an additional crop and oats were apparently a desirable option (I did not read the previous article.)
- cimmanom 8y agoIt’s a pun that falls flat. It’s about oats and soil (dirt).
- avinium 8y agoI wouldn't call the earlier article (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/this-amazing-new-milk-is-going-to-change-everything/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/this-amazing...) a puff piece, but it was very much banging the drum on the agricultural benefits of oat milk. This one isn't really a puff piece either, but the title is a bit misleading. It's covering a few studies around the reduced fertilizer/herbicide/topsoil erosion from diverse crop mixtures (like oats), and links it back to the original article by saying that oat milk could help drive agricultural/biodiversity awareness. The thesis seems to be "oat milk is starting to grow on consumers, and while there's not enough demand to replace swathes of Iowa soy/corn farms with oats, at the least we can intersperse them and use oat milk to coax customers into paying slightly more for "biodiverse" versions". Not an agricultural person though, so maybe I got it wrong.