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[–] 70 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Is this how I learn Coca-Cola owns Fairlife? I never knew. Now I have to find a new brand of filtered milk.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Branded milk is a wild concept

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's the norm in Europe, and it makes absolute sense. Milk quality can vary wildly, so brands provide a way to identify a certain set of qualities.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Some farms are conventional, some are organic, some let's their cows move more freely than others, some use more antibiotics others less, etc

    So no, milk is not just milk. Animal welfare as well as animal intake are big parts for why certain brands can take a steeper price than others

    The only places I've ever witnessed unbranded milk, are in very rural locations at which you pick it up at the literal farm that produced the milk and that's a brand in itself

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Where in the bumfuck do you live? All the milk in normal parts of the U.S. are branded.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    My milk has the name for the store I buy it at. I think that's probably what they're referring to, just store brand milk versus, apparently, MilkaCola. CocaMilka.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting. In New England at least, most of the milk/dairy products are either Hood or Garelick, which are not stores, and the only store brand I can think of is Cumberland Farms - and they started as a dairy farm that went on to open a chain of convenience stores.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Do you just have blank containers with "MILK" printed on them and nothing else? Cuz literally every package of milk I've ever had was branded in some way, even if it's just the local dairy's brand.

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  • [–] 116 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Industrialized dairy farms are highly automated and feature a ton of networked computer equipment to facilitate that.

    This isn't some situation where a farmer rolls up to a cow with a bucket and a stool like the 1800s.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Why does Coca Cola own a milk company? To combat Pilk with Cilk?

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  • [–] 71 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Because corporations need to own everything. Global food trade is split up almost entirely by ten corporations: https://ourfuture.org/20170105/oxfam-ten-multinational-corporations-control-most-food-brands

    Have fun trying to find food items in a supermarket that ar not in any way related to any of these.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I mostly see this chart focused on ultra processed foods, so the base ingredients are mostly safe?

    Also as a filthy Scandinavian, Orkla Group does have quite a lot available in the ultra processed category

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    God damn it. Why couldn't they fuck up Nestle's production instead?

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    If Nestlé had a security breach that compromised production they wouldn't stop the production. They'd just silently keep making compromised product and sort of fix it on the fly.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    It's questionable whatever they would even fix it at all and just keep producing the compromised product and lobby some politician to remove some regulations.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Fixed that for you

    It's questionable whatever they would even fix it at all and just keep producing the compromised product and lobby bribe some politician to remove some regulations.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Wait a minute, those aren't synonyms?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not in America, in America a bribe is when a politician puts down in writing that they voted a certain way because someone gave them money for that specifically, anything else is just normal, according to the supreme court anyway.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    So, if there is a power outage, do their cows just explode?

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    In what way? Except for better shelf life, lower price (where i live at least), pretty good taste, easy to make at home, and it working perfectly fine as milk substitute in all dishes i've tried thus far, and no animals having to be exploited for its production
    Besides those things how is it better?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I met this dude at a house party like 15 years ago. I had no idea who he was, and had a normal conversation with him with small talk like 'what do you do for a living,' etc.

    Apparently he didn't like that I didn't know who he was, and complained to the host (a mutual friend). lol fucking clown.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Who is the dude? I still do not know.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    First question: why are you using a racist and "great replacement" conspiracy theorist in your meme

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 3 months ago* (11 children)

    Me? I just repost from reddit. But seriously what racist theories?

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Jontron's gone on the record supporting the legitimacy of white genocide, has stated that incarceration of blacks being higher in the US due to blacks being more criminal as a group, and several other batshit crazy things.

    The guy was a genuinely funny content creator, he essentially destroyed his career with his politics.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    "Theorist". Jon Tron is a person with shitty opinions.

    Although policing oneself to make sure that everyone in the memes one shares is squeaky clean and shares the group's opinion on all subjects is very strange behavior when the content doesn't also feature that opinion.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Right? TIL that everyone who's ever shared this image supports fascism:

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Did you know milk can be spoiled in certain conditions? ;)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    You wouldn't download a milk, would you?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    I have one, three letter question.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Capitalism. Line must always go up, and the only way to do that for most large companies is to gobble up all kinds of other companies to steal their assets and burn their liabilities. That's why most of the grocery store choices funnel back to like a dozen multinational food companies. Like, look at this shit:

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