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Things the cow needs:
- Grass
- Rain
- A field
Things oat milk needs:
- A monoculture of oats on prime arable land
- Synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, made from natural gas
- Glyphosate, sprayed pre-harvest
- A processing plant
- Industrial enzymes
- Stabilisers and emulsifiers
- Added vegetable oil to fake the mouthfeel of dairy fat
- Added calcium to fake the calcium of dairy
- Added vitamin D to fake the vitamin D of dairy
- Added B12, because there isn't any in oats
- Tetra paks
- A refrigerated supply chain
- A marketing budget
- A celebrity endorsement
- A weekly column in The Guardian
- The continued cooperation of people willing to pay £2.40 a litre for water with oats in it
Things that have changed about what the cow needs in the last ten thousand years:
- Nothing
Things that have changed about what her replacement needs in the last ten years:
- Quite a lot, apparently
There may be a lesson in this.
There usually is.

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