Your cappuccino with oat milk will cost a fortune soon

There are quite a few things I don't understand about our government (why does it take so insanely long for the victims of the benefits scandal to get their money back? Why does it take so long for the residents of Groningen to be compensated? Why are people sleeping outside in Ter Apel while there are so many empty buildings?), but those are big dossiers that others know more about than I do. But in the manageable variant, I also have my question marks. It is not possible to lower the tax on vegetables and fruit because that is ‘too complicated’. Because how do you do that with a cake with strawberries, for example? # headache dossier, so we let it go. From 2024, extra tax will be levied (yes, yes, raising taxes is always easier than lowering them) on lemonade. Now that is of course quite a good thing because lemonade is nice, but not good for anything. But what is also counted as lemonade? Oat milk!

Our healthy go-to drink, the alternative to cow's milk. Now a carton of oat milk was sometimes already €3.20, but from next year the government wants to collect €26.13 instead of €17.30 in tax per hundred liters.

And oh yes, vegetable and fruit juices are also considered lemonade. And all that to discourage unhealthy choices? Who wants to travel to the Chamber one afternoon to tell that vegetable juice, fruit juices, and oat milk are indeed healthy?

Is there hope in fearful oat milk days? Certainly, the Party for the Animals submitted parliamentary questions. Our cappuccino fate is in their hands. Go Esther, go.