the oat milk industrial complex

In today's episode, Mina discusses the items on her personal Christmas wishlist, the Met Costume Institute’s new exhibit "Women Dressing Women," her thoughts on the new Balenciaga show, the lack of "third places" in the U.S. and, in the same vein, the overpriced oat milk lattes that are RUINING community, also: children being worse than ever before?, Emma Chamberlain "discourse," and the potential return of big dairy.

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Reading List:
Third Places TikTok video
kids can't read and it's YOUR FAULT by Kyle Fitzpatrick
The 2023 Gen Z Gift Guide, According to TikTok by Casey Lewis (paywalled)
Got Milk? Not This Generation. by Kim Severson
US retail sales of oat milk decline in latest quarter after years of explosive growth by Elaine Watson
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MILK SHAME, THE BANE OF DAIRY-LOVING ADULTS EVERYWHERE by Andy Kryza
Whole Milk Mounts Its Triumphant Comeback by Emily Sundberg
THE CRIMES BEHIND THE SEAFOOD YOU EAT by Ian Urbina