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posted by mrpg on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the moo dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by acid andy on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:33PM (5 children)

    by acid andy (1683) on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:33PM (#710449) Homepage Journal

    but not why you would then want to eat food that is named the same as animal products

    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?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by schad on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:10PM

    by schad (2398) on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:10PM (#710488)

    Why don't they sell human milk in stores to feed babies?

    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)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 21 2018, @06:08PM (#710515) Journal

    I'd consider drinking human milk if it was fully consensual and past your eyes.

    FTFY

    • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday July 21 2018, @06:33PM

      by acid andy (1683) on Saturday July 21 2018, @06:33PM (#710522) Homepage Journal

      Oh, that old chestnut! They're more like fruit actually. Big, round, bouncy chest fruit.

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  • (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

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:17AM

      by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:17AM (#710704)

      Correct, and it is also donated [some places at least]. Milk banks collect from donors and distribute, just as blood banks do for blood.