One for breakfast: Greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of different milks.
The production of cow’s milk causes the highest emissions – oat milk the lowest.
From our ‘Environmental Impacts of Food Explorer’
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/food-footprints?facet=none&uniformYAxis=0&Commodity+or+Specific+Food+Product=Specific+food+products&Environmental+Impact=Carbon+footprint&Kilogram+%2F+Protein+%2F+Calories=Per+kilogram&By+stage+of+supply+chain=false&country=Beefburger~Cow%27s+milk~Pizza~Oat+milk~Soy+milk~Almond+milk~Rice+milk
@maxroser Well, "milk". These are indeed very different substances so to be fair, the comparison shall be perhaps between various "breakfast drinks", then between "different milks". That water and vodka look the same and are consumed at similar occasions does not make them comparable foodstuffs, does it? And if we go the route of "breakfast drinks" than plain water, or tea, or herbal tea should be involved too... 🤔
@FailForward @maxroser each is a substitute for cow’s milk. You can put any in your cereal for similar effect. You can’t interchange water and vodka. I’m commenting on this because some conservative states are drafting laws that say the only “milk” comes from a cow. Milking is an extracting process applied to various things, like cows and almonds, not a thing in itself. Forcing companies making plant-based milk to call their products something other than milk is a 1st amendment issue.
@johngiordano Whether something is a 1st amendment issue or not is something you'd have to sort out in you own country, such definitions are not and shall not be universal - different societies/countries and jurisdictions can decide as they see fit.
These milk substitutes certainly are very different from nutritional perspective and are produced differently. They just look and maybe perhaps taste similar (I do not know myself, I don't consume these things). As far as I know, in jurisdictions like EU, it's accepted and thus such products cannot be called "milk". It's a similar situation for instance between tea (as in black tea) and herbal infusions, which in many countries are also called and used as "tea" - but they are very very different drinks. Same for coffee vs chicory root products. EU regulates this sort of labeling quite strictly and I can see why. Whether US wants/ends up to do the same is up to them of course, and if they decide no to I also can see reasons why that shall be the case.
Finally, just to say, where I come from, in some parts of the society, you might have a very hard time to insist that water and vodka cannot be used interchangeably 😄 .
