Every goddam economics book ever:
Oat milk is everywhere. Why is it still so expensive?
Plant-based milk has seen a surge in popularity in the past decade. But the high prices are driving some back to dairy
Demand rises, prices do.
Really, it’s not like this is a secret.
Actually I’ve been sliding back to full cream milk. It has more fat but it’s cheaper.
And it tastes much nicer.
I suspect that economies of scale apply here as well.
Plant “milk” might take up a shelf or two in the shop.
Cow milk sells so much they don’t even bother to take it out of the many cages, just wheel it out and leave it. It’s almost guaranteed to sell many cages every day.
I’m also guessing plant milk takes longer to produce – having to wait for their plant bits to grow before harvesting for “milk”. Compared with the daily milking of cows, like the hundred strong herd I had to wait for crossing the road this morning after I finished work… So lower yields.
Maybe that ties in with economies of scale?
Sorry. Tired. Post night shift brain.
Every goddam economics book ever:
Alternatively, one could refer to the opening pages of the ‘Conman’s Handbook’.
You can see a mug coming a mile away
“It has more fat but …” But me no buts. There is no reason to cling to the bollocksy dogma that milk fats are bad for you (or eggs, or meat, or …). These are all parts of the Great Cholesterol Con.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Cholesterol-Dr-Malcolm-Kendrick/dp/1844546101
Oat Milk does not compete with cow’s milk, but with soy, rice, hemp, almond – which is what the undiagnosed mentally ill buy, along with their gluten-free, low fat, low salt, decaffeinated, meatless meat, egg substitute garbage.
Gluten intolerance is a symptom of coeliac disease of which about 1% of the population suffer, yet over 10% of the population buy gluten-free products. We have an epidemic of non-disease disease.
The guardian bravely speaks out on an issue facing the poor up and down the country – the cost of oat milk. Those evil bastard tories pushing the poor into a cost of oat milk crisis
Anyone know anything about the processing of oats? Jim? It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the ‘milk’ was actually a waste product of something else they’ve found mugs to buy.
“Anyone know anything about the processing of oats? Jim? It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the ‘milk’ was actually a waste product of something else they’ve found mugs to buy.”
Its certainly the most money someone can make from processing oats, thats for sure. And I’d be prepared to bet the residue left over from the milk processing isn’t wasted and goes off for animal feed too.
Isn’t oat milk exactly the sort of ‘ultra-processed food’ that were are being told we mustn’t eat?
I rather like oat milk. It tastes like very thin sweet porridge.
I think it’s basically just ground oats soaked in water with some thickeners added.
As said above, it’s hardly an essential item, there are loads of substitutes and as a luxury good, who cares how much it costs for the occasional bottle.
@Jim
I was wondering if it was scraped off the rollers in the process of producing porridge.
(Insert Jockster gag here)
How is oat milk made? Oat milk is simply rolled oats and water blended together then strained to leave the pulp behind.
I hear that ‘Oatly’ at their plant in Sweden sell the residue of the oat milk (eagerly bought by the vegans) to a local pig farm to be used as feed.
In the US , they don’t seem to be able to get away with that (the oat milk consumers got wind of it), so it goes for biogas…
Actually I’ve been sliding back to full cream milk. It has more fat but it’s cheaper.
And it tastes much nicer.
We get full fat from the supermarket and gold top (Channel Island) from the milkman. Whenever we drive past (it’s over 20 miles away) we get unpasteurised from these guys.
Ackshually, prices often fall when something becomes popular. Economies of scale kick in. Consider beer: Fosters was originally an Australian beer. When it was first imported into the UK in the 1970s, it commanded a premium price. As it rose in popularity, it switched to being brewed in the UK; and consequently the price fell.
Brilliant by Boddicker 🙂