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> Humans eat other humans as well. I still think human meat shouldn't be labeled as food. No they don’t. If eating human flesh was an actual tendency in a soc
by sshine 2y ago
> Humans eat other humans as well. I still think human meat shouldn't be labeled as food.
No they don’t.
If eating human flesh was an actual tendency in a society civilised enough to discuss food labelling rules, that would be a legitimate comparison and a real concern.
But as it stands, (cow’s) milk gets produced in the millions of gallons, and human meat you still have to find on Craigslist or on the streets of San Francisco.
> I find "soy milk" or "soy-based milk alternative" much clearer
Ironically, it is “milk” (in the texture sense) by definition of not being very clear.
> I don't know how much of the world would find "plant-based drinks" more clear than "plant-based milk alternatives"
Only by assuming a similarity with dairy that is not nutritionally justified.
> Or are there actual regulations requiring "X drink" to be what I think of as "X milk"?
Yes, read my original post. I linked to a 2018 decision by the EU court that forbade this.
- defrost 2y ago> If eating human flesh was an actual tendency in a society ... Just as a fun heads up on human history, the markers are there that humans have eaten humans globally for several thousand years ... Funerary cannibalism appears to have been common as a mark of respect and humans developed defences against brain prion diseases .. this came to light when looking into why the Fore people developed Kuru .. they developed a sporadic variation that jumped the guard rails. In relatively recent recent European history there have been spates of "Corpse Medicine" (worth looking up) in which parts of Egyption mummies were eaten, parts of executed criminals, etc. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)