• Doug Holland@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    None of this is in my top 10,000 worries right now, and I’m lactose intolerant and drink almond milk and eat boca burgers, but let’s be factual, please. Milk, meat, and flesh have always referred to animal products.

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      3 days ago

      I get where you’re coming from but I think at least in English it’s been almost a thousand years of being flexible with the term “milk”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_milk

      And “meat” just meant “food” a long time ago. Think about how you refer to cracking a nut to get to the “meat” or how the inside edible part of a fruit is referred to as “meat” or “flesh”.

      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweetmeat

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      2 days ago

      None of this is in my top 10,000 worries right now

      Then you should be more upset that one of the highest courts in the world is wasting time with it rather than whether or not they came to the right conclusion.

      Which they didn’t.