Disturbing trend I've noticed in the last couple of months at my local ASDA. (I don't really like ASDA, but Morrisons is too far away to walk.)
Perhaps I'm in a better position to notice this, but milk and milk derivatives like lactose are finding their way into different foods more and more.
Kids' sweets for instance. It's quite possible to make these things without milk, but they put it in, supposedly to make them more "healthy." You can't buy soup without milk in it anymore, except for expensive Baxters stuff (who, to my pleasant surprise, make their stuff vegan where possible and label it as such). Others have started putting milk powder into crisps that didn't even contain lactose before.
Aside from the question of whether consuming as much processed milk as possible has any health benefits, it's a bugger for people on a dairy-free diet. Before you roll your eyes like, "whining vegan," think of people who have allergies to these products. Doesn't this piss anyone else off?
Food labelling convention sucks too. Remember the Big Brother apologist remark, "The only ones who need worry are those with something to hide"? Why won't they apply this to food labelling already?
It doesn't suit some people's agendas. And yet, the cameras are there for our own protection... yeah, right.
