Dairy farmers and makers of plant-based dairy alternatives are squaring off over a murky question: Legally, who’s got milk? Dairymen are lobbying Congress to restrict use of the word “milk” to products derived from lactating animals like cows. Makers of increasingly popular soy, almond and coconut-based milk substitutes pushed back on Thursday, asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to back a broader use of the term.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 02, 2017 20:26 UTC