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Article: Dairy group wants you to know beans about `soy milk'
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 12, 2000
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Dairy group wants you to know beans about `soy milk'
By CINDY SKRZYCKI
Washington Post
Sunday, March 12, 2000
Washington -- This much is undisputed: Soybeans do not lactate.
So soy producers shouldn't be calling their beverages "milk,"
according to the National Milk Producers Federation, which filed a
complaint with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month
seeking to banish the terms "soy milk" and "soymilk" from grocery
shelves and dairy cases.
The milk producers are trying to protect the distinct identity of
their product, which, they point out, comes from "the lacteal
secretion" of cows, compared with soybeans, which come from the
ground. "Soy-based beverages are attempting to ...