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Catholic holy-day restrictions banned animal products for roughly half the year, making almond milk essential in European recipes.
Trade and Islamic-ruled Spain carried almond milk into Europe, where English and French cookbooks recorded it by the 1300s.
Henry Ford predicted plant milk would replace cow’s milk just as cars replaced horses. Only one prediction came true.
In 2016, Oatly scarcity made one carton delivered to Dallas, Pennsylvania cost about $86 instead of five dollars.
Swill milk was diluted with contaminated water and chalk, then served to babies as if it were rich and creamy.
Lactose intolerance is the global norm for adults, affecting more than two-thirds worldwide and nearly one-third in America.
In 1996, White Wave founder Steve Demos paid supermarkets to place Silk soy milk beside dairy in refrigerated cases.
Oatly became so scarce that one carton reportedly sold for about $86 on Amazon.
For most of history, people rarely drank liquid milk directly. They transformed dairy, soy milk, and almond milk into something else.
Urban dairies beside breweries fed chained cows brewery waste, producing unhealthy milk known as swill milk.
Every plant-based milk studied had a lower greenhouse-gas footprint than cow’s milk, sometimes by an order of magnitude.
Matching cow’s milk in plant-based nutrition, taste, and performance could take two or three more PhDs, but funding is missing.
A wider range of plant-based milks can fuel innovation and give consumers better options, creating broader change.
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