Back in 2023, we talked about a strange trademark dispute out of the UK concerning oat-based milk products. Specifically, Oatly, a large producer of oat milk, applied for a trademark in the UK for …
How is it tricking? They clearly call it ‘vegan/vegetarian X’. Nobody’s fooled, that’s just big meat industries being angry because vegan is growing. They could try switching to those too, spares a lot of animal suffering AND CO2 while satisfying the palate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You’re being fed propaganda by those meat industries. Don’t fall for it.
It ain’t encroaching if a herring is called a ‘codfish-like fish’, and nobody’s attacking ya. Everyone understands what’s meant with it: it’s a vegan thing that tastes like an X. That’s how it’s used. Prohibiting that makes it needlessly hard to compare.
Because they need to call it milk, they know if they call it something else (like give it a name that accurately describes it), it’ll sell less. They don’t believe in vegans to support them. They want to convince you it’s a healthier kind of milk and not something else entirely.
How is it tricking? They clearly call it ‘vegan/vegetarian X’. Nobody’s fooled, that’s just big meat industries being angry because vegan is growing. They could try switching to those too, spares a lot of animal suffering AND CO2 while satisfying the palate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You’re being fed propaganda by those meat industries. Don’t fall for it.
It ain’t encroaching if a herring is called a ‘codfish-like fish’, and nobody’s attacking ya. Everyone understands what’s meant with it: it’s a vegan thing that tastes like an X. That’s how it’s used. Prohibiting that makes it needlessly hard to compare.
Because they need to call it milk, they know if they call it something else (like give it a name that accurately describes it), it’ll sell less. They don’t believe in vegans to support them. They want to convince you it’s a healthier kind of milk and not something else entirely.