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The Disclosure Podcast

'Post-Milk Generation’ and Other Things Big Dairy Doesn’t Want You to Say: The Oatly Case

The Disclosure Podcast

Ed Winters

Ethics, Politics, Whole Foods, Society & Culture, Education, Animals, Morality, Veganism, Philosophy, Vegan, Plant Based Diet

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Disclosure Podcast, I break down the UK Supreme Court ruling that prevents Oatly from using the slogan “post-milk generation” on its packaging, and explore why this case is nothing to do with consumer confusion and everything to do with protecting the dairy industry. I discuss the inconsistencies and absurdities in current labelling laws, what this reveals about industry influence and lobbying, and why situations like this should encourage us to question broader claims ...

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The Welcome to the Disclosure podcast. If you enjoy this episode and the work that I'm doing here,

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So recently I uploaded a substack where I was talking about this ruling in the UK by

1:20.2

the Supreme Court regarding Oatley's attempts to trademark the slogan post-milk generation. And I'll put the link for the

1:30.5

substack in the show notes that you can read it if you'd be interested in doing so. But I also

1:35.5

wanted to expand a little bit about a little bit on this because I think this story,

1:39.7

and I'll recap in just a moment, for those of you haven't come across it yet.

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I think this story is really symbolic in terms of the direction of censorship around plant-based terminology and what words can be used.

1:53.4

But I also think it's quite symbolic of these kind of cynical tactics by the animal product

1:59.7

industries to sort of obfuscate the truth around what their intentions

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are and also to try and, obviously, it's to try and turn people away from purchasing these products

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or maybe to create sort of financial issues for some plant-based companies, because actually

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one of the knock-on effects of this ruling is that packaging for OLE is no longer

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valid. Now, I don't know if they're given a grace period to phase it out. Presumably they are.

2:24.2

I don't know for certain, though, so you'd have to double check that. But it means that going forward,

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