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They lobbied and won against margarine back during WW2. It couldn't even be dyed yellow, you got a little packet of yellow dye to add to your white colored margarine at home. This lasted into the mid 1960s when they just started dying the margarine like butter.
Personally growing up on a dairy farm, I'm fine with making the distinction. Like you can't label food something that it's not. You can only call Scotch whisky Scotch only if it's made in Scotland. Same with cheeses and wines in Italy and France. It's a guarantee you are getting what you paid for, the real thing. And not some fake chemical concoction. It goes even so far as soap. Did you ever notice that Dove is called a beauty bar and not soap?
Go ahead and eat all the oat butter and drink all the oat milk you want if you like it. Oats are a pretty under used crop. The majority of it ends up as horse feed. Oats are a high food value food even for humans. I enjoy making oat bread. It's quick, simple, and tasty. Along side of a chili or soup, it makes for a hearty and nutritious meal.
I'm in favour of regulations against calling plant milk cow milk, but I'm against regulations against calling it milk. Look at coconut milk. If customers want cow milk, they can very well look at the label. But normal people just want milk and don't much care what it comes out of.
IME people definitely have strong preferences for different kinds of milk. They just aren't as dumb as dairy lobbyists seem to think.
You might be very surprised at how much people would care about what gets called milk when push comes to shove.
Imagine you go to an unfamiliar grocery store and get some milk. When you get home and try to make coffee, the milk looks and smells weird. You check the label, and find out you accidentally bought yak milk. It is in every sense of the word milk, it just came out of a yak. If you're a reasonable person, you'll learn your lesson to check what the milk comes from before buying it.
Yak milk or soy milk doesn't matter in my view. If you wanted cow milk, look for the word cow. If it's not there, don't assume it's cow milk.
Imagine going into a store and being in a hurry to buy milk and finding out it's oat milk at home and not the almond milk you wanted if everything is labeled "Malk"......Any nut or grain milk is already labeled as to what it is in big bold letters because there are different kinds. Redundant labeling is stupid at that point.
And while I've not had yak milk, I have had sheep and goat milks, they are fine to drink. And while I'm all for pasteurized milk for food safety reasons, I grew up on a dirt poor dairy farm. And we drank raw milk every day because we had free fresh milk all the time. I can tell you that it smells and tastes nothing like the pasteurized 1% or 2% milk that gets sold in the grocery store. I guarantee you would turn your nose up and run away.
Why would I ever be in a such a hurry to buy milk that I can't check what kind it is? I don't need milk to live. I only use milk in fun recipes, not everyday staples.
Well don't that make you special.
Japanese Scotch has entered the conversation
No, Japanese scotch cannot not be legally labeled as Scotch no more than American made scotch can be legally labeled as such. They can be labeled as Malt whisky, The whisky needs to be aged and bottled in Scotland to legally be labeled Scotch anywhere in this world. Even a quick google would tell you that.
I’ve never heard of Japanese scotch. I’ve heard of Japanese whiskey, which I have a couple bottles of and they’re quite good, but they’re not scotch. Scotch has to be made in Scotland, otherwise it’s not scotch. I tried looking up “Japanese scotch” and didn’t find anything. Just Japanese whiskey.