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In reply to the discussion: Stop calling almond, soy and rice milks 'milk,' 25 members of Congress say [View all]retread
(3,762 posts)47. It is obvious they never got up at 3am to milk an orchard of almonds!!
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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