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Update 31.5.2021:<\/p>\n\n

Sometimes it’s good to get upset. This week, the European Parliament announced that the controversial amendment 171 will be withdrawn. Thanks to everyone who supported the vegan.at petition!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n

Original article from 25.2.2021:This podcast episode of the Nutrition Monologues<\/a> is all about milk. But primarily not from a nutritional biology perspective, but from a linguistic one. The EU is currently planning to ban certain terms for milk alternatives such as oat milk or soy milk. <\/p>\n\n

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Now you could say, yes, I don’t really care, oat milk is just called oat drink. But language always has an effect. How we describe something influences how we think about it. And this regulation also affects people with lactose intolerance<\/a>. You can find out why this is the case, who is behind it and whether there is anything you can do about it in the latest podcast:<\/p>\n\n