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I wouldn't call the earlier article (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/this-amazing-new-milk-is-going-to-change-everything/ https://www.motherjone
by avinium 8y ago
I 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.