like in, "look, kids are eating this for breakfast, we need to fortify it vitamins and stuff to prevent deficiencies"... nevermind that those extra vitamins will just increase the risk of cancers or stuff in adults. it's becoming hard to find the "un-enhanced" sortiments of many products.
...despite the study that got very popular on HN lately this is far from a clearly agreed upon theory. There's still only retrospective data and with enough confounding factors to make drawing any inference on the causality of things very very hard. Until we all start wearing blood-analyzing implants for a generation or so, >50% of nutrition related studies will continue either being bullshit or not meaning what we think they mean,
I don't know about cancer, but food additives aren't always a good idea.
Extra calcium is not really absorbed without vitamin D3 (more specifically, calcitriol), but I imagine that if one has a kidney condition one would have to avoid such food additives.
Even the addition of iodine to salt is not without consequences.
The same thing happens here: soy yoghurt is 'soy dessert', soy/rice/* milk is '* beverage'.
I'm not sure this is actually enforced, or brands are just covering their asses.
I'm on both sides of this. I think it should be called milk, and the public should understand that the nutrition is very different, but perhaps for public interest not calling it milk is better because cow milk does offer more bang-for-buck and nutrition (particularly protein and vit D fortification) and the public could easily overlook this. I lean toward not calling it milk, because everyone who wants almond milk knows what to buy or can figure it out quite easily, even if it's not called milk any more.
AND you have to feed the calf a milk substitute because we're stealing it's meal.
If you must have milk, drink dairy substitutes if you care about drought.
Even today, they eat grass for the bulk of their lives. They are 'finished' with corn/soy to add marbling.
It's a massive system beyond simply "eating the grass which people couldn't eat". People consume many times more dairy and eat many times more beef than in history.
There's not enough land for all of the cows to free graze. It was estimated we would need something like 7 Earths to feed the world on the Western diet.
So when counting the grain used against the cost of meat, include the dry material as well for a fair comparison.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/how-ameri...
Of course the total consumption has gone up because of the massive increase in population.
cf: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/oct/...
http://veganstart.org/wp-content/uploads/vs-graphic-truthord...
Sourced PDF: http://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2013/02/ca_ft...
Maybe if there was a good word that quickly described what rice, soy, or oat milk was it would be OK. But simply calling them "juice" seems to be even more of a culinary misnomer.