On: Animal meat and milk sales drop in Europe as vegan...

[Eduard]

> many (most?) vegan alternatives, which rely heavily on such things as canola oil and have to be engineered.

Kinda strawmanny to take/highlight unhealthy food as the vegan alternatives compared.

> perhaps we can agree we shouldn't be making policy decisions that shift the diets of millions of people

The diary and meat industries are prime examples that have profited and am profiting from (influencing) policy decisions. Including: subventions for dumping milk and meat prices; and manipulating dietary recommendations (check "food pyramid" with "lobby"), hence shifting diets of millions of people.

[kelipso → Eduard]

Oat milk is a popular vegan milk and almost all of them are 10% canola oil. It's not that much of a strawman.

[Eduard → kelipso]

> almost all of them * which you checked / where you live

Probably you mean 10% oat, not canola oil; that much fat wouldn't be a vegan drink milk alternative.

Besides, I don't find the current evidence for canola oil being unhealthy convincing.

[kelipso → Eduard]

No, I mean canola oil. It's to give a creamy texture to oat milk. Oatly oat milk, for example, more than 1/3 of its calories come from canola oil.