It's mostly owned by a Belgian company, Verlinvest (40%). Which is a venture capital company run by the families behind Inbev (the beer company). After that it's 30% owned by a Chinese company. At least according to Wikipedia. On their own website they list some more owners but without any percentages.
Ok, but it's not "swedish" anymore at least. Even if the chinese ownership is 30%, it's still the state of china that owns a large part of it which is enough for me to never buy that product again.
Also, they have sponsored a festival outside Gothenburg in Sweden several times where they banned regular milk in the area, citing that it's bad for you.
That's ok to me, most of the stuff I buy is not made by a local company. We live in a globalized world after all.
I assume you mean Way out West? Oatly does seem like a good fit there so I wouldn't be surprised. That's been a vegetarian festival since 2012. Vegetarian as in they don't sell any meat. Non-vegetarians are of course welcome to party along.
Oatly's marketing is quite tongue in cheek yes, it's part of their image.
I find it kinda hilarious that despite this Oatly is very popular in vegan/new age/alternative circles. If I was a vegan I would rather drink organic soy milk.
I have similar feelings. The organic soymilk I buy has two ingredients: water and sugar. Reading the ingredient list on oat milks always makes me a bit uneasy in comparison.
I do sometimes buy oat milk though since it does go better with tea.
Yes, but the trade-off is they spend most of their adult life being called "SOYBOY" by "real men" with inferiority complexes. No sane person would want that.
No, that is not what I am saying. I am saying that being vegan most likely results in lower testosterone, which is a basic hormone that is very important for males.
It is important for all aspects of mens health and well being, especially when you get older.
Well, yes. For example, the more of it you have, the likelier you are to develop prostate cancer in later life, and to have worse outcomes from that cancer. That definitely seems important. And eating lots of red meat also lowers your sperm count and quality, apparently (1) - which seems important too, at least if you're interested in siring lots of strong and healthy sons to carry on your line. Which I assume would be important, but who knows? For all I can tell based on what you've said so far, you could just have a taste for really butch tops. Which, fair! Same here. But I don't really feel the need to inquire as to their diet.
“Vegans had 13% higher T [testosterone] concentration than meat-eaters and 8% higher than vegetarians.” Not only did vegan men have as much testosterone as meat eaters, they actually have 13% MORE of this manly hormone. On the flip side, too much testosterone can be a bad thing because it leads to higher levels of IGF-I – a risk factor for certain cancers. Surprisingly, the report also found this: “Vegan men had on average 9% lower IGF-I levels than meat-eaters.”
But cow milk in general (and especially in Whole Milk form) is well proven to be unhealthy in the quantities usually recommended.
There’s a good reason why nobody else drinks milk like Americans do. (Who were advertised to insanely aggressively and back room dealings brought about things like making Milk a standard in US schools.) Oatly is still really bad but the root problem is that in the US we drink more milk than anyone else...and we really don’t need it.
>But cow milk in general (and especially in Whole Milk form) is well proven to be unhealthy in the quantities usually recommended.
Do you have a source on that statement? What are the quantities that are usually recommended, and by whom are they recommended?
>There’s a good reason why nobody else drinks milk like Americans do.
That's simply not true. The Scandinavian countries all consume more milk per capita than the US. Coincidentally, Scandinavia is also where Oatly is from.
