Talk:Milk substitute

message: I suppose this is something different. I can't find an article in milk replacer though. __meco (talk) 16:51, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Milk replacer 

message: 1.	Western bias
The article's classification of plant milks as "milk substitutes" reflects both a geographical bias towards North America and a lack of historical knowledge. Plant milks have been used as foods/beverages in their own right for hundreds - if not thousands - of years, and, when home-made, require minimal processing. Lumping them together with highly synthetic, exclusively factory-made products like Coffee Mate is bizarre.
2.	Poorly conceived
The failure to distinguish between a non-synthetic/natural product like all home-made and many modern factory-made plant milks and modern, highly synthetic coffee creamers is a major problem. Moreover, since there are already articles on non-dairy creamer and plant milk, with contradictory material on each subject from that given here,  any need for this article to even exist is questionable.
3. Very poorly constructed
Example A: Third sentence of first paragraph: "Milk substitutes usually contain milk powder" - in other words, "non-dairy" creamers (presumably this is what's being referred to as there's a photo of Coffe Mate to the immediate right) contain dairy ("milk" must be interpreted as dairy milk, according {apparent} to Wikipedia policy). Naturally it is not true that plant milks contain dairy milk powder, so the intended meaning here can only be guessed at. According to our own article on non-dairy creamers, ingredients include dairy milk derivatives like casein & sodium caseinate, sometimes sweeteners (e.g. solidified corn syrup) sometimes flavours, and sometimes hydrogenated vegetable-based fats. 
If the list of ingredients was at some point an accurate description of a certain brand of plant milk (of which there are thousands) it is extremely selective, even aside from the fact that it leaves out home-made versions, and non-representative.
--Philologia (talk) 22:36, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple issues 

message: Perhaps a page can be made on Those Vegan Cowboys ?
See  and . It seems a very notable company (given that it is made by the person behind The Vegetarian Butcher (there's a Dutch wiki page)).
I have the impression that they are focused on trying to make milk from grass rather then a conventional milk substitute input crop.
--Genetics4good (talk) 11:00, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't want to throw a sop on all this plantmilk, which I think is historically important, but featuring a company for its own sake might not be suitable without more indicators of recognizable notability. MaynardClark (talk) 11:12, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Those Vegan Cowboys

message: In Lactose Intolerance, I’d like to remove this sentence:
"Due to genetic differences,[21][22] intolerance of lactose is more common globally than tolerance.[23][24][25][26][27] "
The main reason is that the expression "due to genetic differences" is not saying what it should, as I see it. 
I suggest putting its main part after the following sentence, and rephrase both this way:
"Rates of lactose intolerance vary widely between different ethnicities[21][22], from less than 10% in Northern Europe to as high as 95% in parts of Asia and Africa.[28] Seen globally, intolerance of lactose is more common than tolerance.[23][24][25][26][27]"
However, as there are so many references in that first sentence, I hesitate to just change things around this way without checking all those references, or asking the community. Please let me know what you think! Geke (talk) 20:51, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove sentence? 

message: Just a heads-up that as part of an editathon I'm leading on June 17, new editors might be making some edits to this article. I'll be following up shortly afterwards to check for copyright compliance and other quality issues and will clean up stuff if needed. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 23:05, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editathon June 17