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Plant Milk Is Better For Us and the Climate. So Why Do We Subsidize Dairy?
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Except almonds. Almonds are terrible water wasters, and mostly grown in California where they can least afford the water.
Almond is the worst of the nut milks, but it's STILL way better for the environment than dairy.
What you get in stores is not even really almond milk. Real almond milk would be way too expensive to be competitive.
Exactly... Ughh I still fail to understand why almond milk is popular among vegans. It's very expensive and doesn't even taste that nice...
True. Soy and oat milk can be very good, depending on the brand.
oat milk is the jammy out of all the alt milks imo
Reccomendation on brands?
My favorite oat milk is Oatly Barista, the best soy milk I've tried is from Joya, but I haven't seen it outside of Austria yet. Alpro is quite good and more widely available (at least in Europe). In North America, Silk seems to be great from what I've heard. Store brand soy milks tend to taste pretty bad from my experience here in Germany, but some of them might have improved since I tried them years ago.
Oatly and Califia both have great oat milks. They also have barista milks that substitute for half and half in coffee!
Thank you for the suggestions!
Welcome! Feel free to message with any questions or if you'd like more suggestions!
Even soy milk in the US isn't really just soy milk. There are so much stuff added to it. It's thick too.
I grew up drinking a lot of real soy milk which has a watery consistency that I can get at some Vietnamese / Chinese grocery stores or tofu shops. Flavor is quite different too.
Though I guess the US put thickeners and other stuff into theirs to help imitate milk