Vegans: "Oat milk is better for you and better for the planet." Great point. So instead of a cow turning grass into milk in a field down the road, we've developed a twelve-step industrial alternative. Step one: plough a field. Pasture is never ploughed; an oat field is turned over, sprayed and emptied of everything living in it every single year. Step two: spray the standing crop with glyphosate a fortnight before harvest so it dries on schedule. Step three: ship the oats from wherever the contract was cheapest this year, Scandinavia, Canada, the Baltic, to a factory that is almost never in the country drinking the result. Step four: mill the oats, stir them into water, and add enzymes to pre-digest the starch into sugar, which is why it tastes sweet and why a glass carries about 7g of carbohydrate and 1g of protein. Milk is the other way round. Step five: spin out the bran and fibre, which is most of the oat, and sell it as pig feed. Step six: look at what's left. 10% oat, 90% water, tastes of nothing. Step seven: pour in rapeseed oil, from a crushing plant, because the oat has no fat and the coffee needs something to foam. Step eight: add dipotassium phosphate so it doesn't curdle the moment it meets a hot drink. Step nine: add calcium carbonate from a quarry, potassium iodide from a mine, vitamin D2 grown on irradiated fungus, and B12 brewed in a bacterial vat, most likely in China. Four continents, to put back what the cow put in for free. Step ten: heat it to 140 degrees, homogenise it, and seal it in a six-layer carton of card, plastic and aluminium. Step eleven: load the cartons onto lorries and drive 90% water up and down the motorway network. Step twelve: print a picture of a field on the carton. Not the ploughed one. The cow: stands in a field that has never seen a plough, eats grass no human can digest, and makes milk that already contains the fat, the protein, the calcium, the iodine and the B12 in the proportions a mammal is built for. The herd is inside 30 miles of your fridge. The bottle came in a van. Better for the planet, though. Says so on the carton. Next to the field.

Tribesmen in the Amazon listens to opera for the first time

While Zelensky desperately clings to the illusion that Europe’s support for Ukraine will last forever, even the EU President seems to be waking up to reality. Endless optimism is no substitute for realism. Her face says it all..... 😂😂😂

So this is what The Hague is backing! Another "volunteer" forcibly mobilized to fight for Zelensky. People are literally kidnapped from the streets. No mercy. Any words from Dutch human rights activists? Are you fine with this?

Gideon van Meijeren: ‘Wat ik de afgelopen dagen heb ontdekt is ronduit schokkend’ ninefornews.nl/gideon-van-me…

De premier slaat de spijker op z’n kop. Trumps dieseldeal met Poetin is oliedom en moet als de wiedeweerga van tafel. Want zoals Jetten terecht zegt: met deze subsidie aan Rusland spekt Trump de oorlogskas van een terreurbewind dat steeds meer gewone burgers in Oekraïne vermoord. Daar past maar één antwoord op: Oekraïne volop blijven steunen en de druk op Rusland maximaal opvoeren om te stoppen met Poetins agressie. En weg met deze ondermijnende deal. nu.nl/politiek/6413057/jette…