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Soon, your soy milk may not be called 'milk'
Soy and almond drinks that bill themselves as "milk" may need to consider alternative language after a top regulator suggested the agency may start cracking down on use of the term.
The Food and Drug Administration signaled plans to start enforcing a federal standard that defines "milk" as coming from the "milking of one or more healthy cows." That would be a change for the agency, which has not aggressively gone after the proliferation of plant-based drinks labeled as "milk."
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb talked about the plans this week, noting there are hundreds of federal "standards of identity" spelling out how foods with various names need to be manufactured.
"The question becomes, have we been enforcing our own standard of identity," Gottlieb said about "milk" at the Politico event Tuesday. "The answer is probably not."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by choose another one on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:06PM (12 children)
> What about the sheep and goats?
And the people. Doesn't anyone think of the children any more?
Actually I think baby feeds are not allowed to be called "baby milk" unless they are actually made of milk - why they are called "baby formula" instead, and I think that applies in USA too.
I really don't understand the vegan milk/cheese/bacon/sausage/burger brigade - I get why you might want to not eat animal products, but not why you would then want to eat food that is named the same as animal products. Seems a bit like claiming you are anti-car and then insisting your bicycle is actually a car, or saying you are anti-gun and then carrying a replica everywhere and insisting it's actually an AR15.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:16PM (2 children)
Goat milk is extracted from goats, and soy milk is extracted from soy, so baby milk is...?
This kind of thing was a problem for Gerber's baby food in Africa. Cans of food sold in Africa normally have pictures of the food. (picture of corn on a can of corn, picture of green beans on a can of green beans, etc.) Gerber baby food had pictures of babies.
Admittedly, "baby formula" isn't much better. It sounds like something used to create babies. Eeeeeew. I'm not feeding THAT to my baby.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:17PM (1 child)
But, it has everything a growing baby needs... :0
(Score: 2) by gawdonblue on Monday July 23 2018, @07:43AM
Electrolytes?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by acid andy on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:33PM (5 children)
Vegan here. But I share your point of view, more or less. The thought of so called "mock meats" make me want to gag. I am OK with non-dairy drinks being presented as "milks" though. It's probably down to the fact that I was veggie for quite some time before I went the whole, err, cob! I do have a convenient rationalization for this behavior developed afterwards though: as a mammal it's perfectly natural to enjoy drinking milks (and yeah trolls, I'm already perfectly aware there's a similar argument about it being natural as an omnivore to eat meat!). I'd consider drinking human milk if it was fully consensual and pasteurized. Why don't they sell human milk in stores to feed babies?
Welcome to Edgeways. Words should apply in advance as spaces are highly limite—
(Score: 3, Informative) by schad on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:10PM
Well, you have to pay humans, whereas you don't have to pay cows. Thus human milk would be considerably more expensive.
With that said, it is possible to buy human milk, and some people do. I mean, nursemaids were a thing: women who breastfed children that weren't their own. Nowadays, with the advent of breast pumps, freezers, and next-day shipping, they're more likely to bottle and sell their milk instead. There's not a huge market for it, but the market that exists is willing to pay a lot for the real deal.
The things you learn when you don't want to feed your kid soy-based formula!
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 21 2018, @06:08PM (1 child)
FTFY
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday July 21 2018, @06:33PM
Oh, that old chestnut! They're more like fruit actually. Big, round, bouncy chest fruit.
Welcome to Edgeways. Words should apply in advance as spaces are highly limite—
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday July 22 2018, @02:27AM (1 child)
But directly, not in stores
Women who express too much sell it to women who don't express enough
If a lady keeps using a breast pump she cab lactate for quite a lot longer time
A friend of mine did so while her daughter awaited a kidney transplant
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:17AM
Correct, and it is also donated [some places at least]. Milk banks collect from donors and distribute, just as blood banks do for blood.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @04:08PM (2 children)
Because many people are vegans/vegetarians for ethical reasons. Fake meat and so on do not pose an issue for them.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday July 21 2018, @04:49PM
Actually, there's something I forgot to add, and it was more or less the opposite of what you just said.
It was that I suspect that most of the vegans that want to eat imitation meats just adopted it as a fad diet, where they still desire meat to eat but attempt to avoid it with the aim of losing weight or improving their health.
Good job this isn't Hacker News -- that place seems to be full of fad dieters for some reason!
I'm not saying that ditching or reducing your consumption of animal products can't be a healthier option, just that there are a lot of dieters that blindly follow trends without really understanding any of the science behind a diet.
Welcome to Edgeways. Words should apply in advance as spaces are highly limite—
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday July 21 2018, @08:53PM
But why can't they call it what it is then? Soy-milk or Quorn-meat (or whatever that mushroom thing is called/spelled again). Fake products should note and acknowledge their "fakeness" so it isn't confused or mixed up with the real product.