Crying over plant-based milk: neither science nor history favours a dairy monopoly
- Written by Heather Bray, Lecturer in Science Communication, University of Western Australia
Botany defines milk as a kind of juice or sap, usually white in colour, found in certain plants. Plant-based liquids have been called milk for centuries.www.shutterstock.comSoy milk. Almond milk. Rice milk. To some dairy farmers these products are like a red rag to a bull.
They want governments to decree the word “milk” should be...
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