Like many people, when 23-year-old Kate first switched from dairy to oat milk in 2019, her primary concern was the environment. “I was a big oat milk girlie, for environmental reasons for the most part, but also for health,” she tells me. “I wasn’t eating meat for the environment as well.”
At the time, veganism was experiencing an unprecedented surge in popularity. While soya milk had previously been the most popular plant-based alternative, unsubstantiated rumours of health concerns surrounding its oestrogen levels began to circulate.
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