(yes, it even uses less water in water-scarce places)

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    To make them cheap, make it yourself.

    Making oat milk is a really simple process & to make it more like commercially available products, you can add various other ingredients such as xanthan gum to bind it as well as various things for flavour such as a small amount of cinnamon.

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      Nobody has the time to do that. I am not going to put that much work (and that is not laziness) in manually making oat milk when I have a million other things to think, manage and do. This mindset will absolutely never help adoption of more vegan practices. I am all for inching towards less meat/animal related foods but it has to be viable, optimal and must not be a nutritional compromise (protein combining with one compact meal is fair).

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        It’s literally putting stuff in a blender and then straining. with your reasoning, why even bother baking or cooking?

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          Because I do not want to cook up another thing besides my meals? Because I want to put my brain towards other things?

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        Nobody has the time to do that.

        Plant milks need to become way cheaper than currently 5x the cost for me in India.

        So you have 3 choices there:

        1. Examine your time management as you will have time that youre actually just procrastinating or pursuing bullshit that doesnt really matter as much as you think. (Dont lie - Very few people actually dont).

        It takes 10 minutes to make a batch. Less time than will take you to walk to a shop (see here for a simple recipe/process: https://minimalistbaker.com/make-oat-milk/ )

        1. Pay 5x the cost for plant based products - is your time really worth that much in exchange for the convenience?

        2. Keep drinking disgusting cows milk.

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          Keep drinking disgusting cows milk.

          These are the kind of reasons why vegans will never be able to convince people. Go on. That advocacy is surely working.