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Showing Original Post only (View all)Stop calling almond, soy and rice milks 'milk,' 25 members of Congress say [View all]
Got milk? Twenty-five members of Congress say if it's from soybeans, almond or rice, it should not be labeled as milk.
Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), leading the bipartisan charge against fake milk, signed a letter along with other congressional members, asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate and take action against manufacturers of milk that doesn't come from cows.
They want the FDA to require plant-based products to adopt a name other than milk, which they say is deceptive.
We strongly believe that the use of the term milk by manufacturers of plant-based products is misleading to consumers, harmful to the dairy industry and a violation of milk's standard of identity, the letter states.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-almond-milk-soy-milk-20161223-story.html
Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), leading the bipartisan charge against fake milk, signed a letter along with other congressional members, asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate and take action against manufacturers of milk that doesn't come from cows.
They want the FDA to require plant-based products to adopt a name other than milk, which they say is deceptive.
We strongly believe that the use of the term milk by manufacturers of plant-based products is misleading to consumers, harmful to the dairy industry and a violation of milk's standard of identity, the letter states.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-almond-milk-soy-milk-20161223-story.html
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Stop calling almond, soy and rice milks 'milk,' 25 members of Congress say [View all]
SecularMotion
Dec 2016
OP
Sadly there are cases of parents feeding babies cow milk causing severe health
Luminous_Animal
Dec 2016
#13
Because consumers might be confused or deceived that coconut milk is actually from cows?
JudyM
Dec 2016
#25
If we learned anything in November...It that many Americans are profoundly stupid
dembotoz
Dec 2016
#38
Ok. Or a tempest in a teapot designed to help the dairy lobby, instead of solving real problems.
JudyM
Dec 2016
#39
The longer I live, the less credit I give people for making choices based on thoughtful
Tanuki
Dec 2016
#72
They can sod off, and cow milk is bad news, especially the shit some industrial farming
Grey Lemercier
Dec 2016
#20
No doubt the war on "Milk" will be started on O'Reilly's FOx News any day now..
yuiyoshida
Dec 2016
#26
The funny thing is that people buy Almond Milk when there are only 6-8 almonds pressed per quart.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2016
#27
So are people. Still, 6-8 almonds equates to a fraction of 1% and pressed--the volume of 2 almonds.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2016
#68
Different brands have different percentages. The supermarket brands are usually more watery
Donkees
Dec 2016
#73
Dear Congress: Twitler is about to start a nuclear war. Isn't there something you should be doing?
Squinch
Dec 2016
#35
These people are so stupid they should not be in the government. We have so many problems
OregonBlue
Dec 2016
#55
Why not just label regular whole milk as almond milk if labels do not matter
HoneyBadger
Dec 2016
#67