Could dairy-free milk products soon be prohibited from marketing themselves as milks? During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing this week, a senator from Wisconsin asked the Food and Drug Administration to consider asking manufacturers to re-identify dairy-free alternatives for consumers.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-WI, recently introduced a bill known as the "Dairy Pride Act" that would effectively prohibit what we're going to awkwardly call plant-based non-dairy beverage products from being labeled as "milk."
It turns out that the federal definition of the word "milk" is limited to this less than appetizing definition: "The lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows."
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