Utopia Talk / Politics / Big Government Republican Regulations

murder Member	Thu Jul 19 09:17:10 The nanny state is at it again imposing burdensome regulations on business ... Soon, your soy milk may not be called ‘milk’ Jul 18, 2018 5:19 PM EDT NEW YORK — 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.” Standards of identity have been the source industry spats as American diets have evolved, including fights about what gets to be called mayonnaise and yogurt. More recently, there are disagreements over what to call meat grown by culturing cells, a science that’s still emerging. The FDA can’t just change the way it enforces a standard without warning, Gottlieb said. Since it plans to take a different approach to enforcement, he said the FDA will have to first develop guidance notifying companies of the change and ask for public comment. That guidance will probably be issued in a year, he said. Gottlieb said the agency expects to get sued, since dictionary definitions are broader and say milk comes from a lactating animal or a nut. The National Milk Producers Federation said it welcomes Gottlieb’s recognition that the labeling practices of many “plant-based dairy imitators” violate federal standards. The industry group had recently renewed its push for the FDA to crack down on nondairy drinks calling themselves “milk.” The Good Food Institute, which advocates for plant-based alternatives, says the term “milk” should be permitted with modifiers for nondairy drinks. “For the same reason that you can have gluten-free bread and rice noodles, almond milk and soy milk are the most clear and best terms for describing those products,” said Bruce Friedrich, the group’s co-founder. The FDA declined to comment on whether the agency would enforce other standards, such as for yogurt. http://www...oy-milk-may-not-be-called-milk
murder Member	Thu Jul 19 09:19:51 One can only imagine that tofu turkey is next on the big government republican nanny state regulation chopping block.
Hot Rod Revved Up	Thu Jul 19 10:36:53 The government is asking industry to *honestly* describe what they are selling to the consumers. What a positively horrible thing to impose on the industry. I never heard of such a thing. Before you know it Trump will be writing 180,000 pages of new regulations. Oh, Wait, where have I heard of that happening before.
hood Member	Thu Jul 19 10:48:44 On the contrary, "milk" has been used to describe non-mammary-sourced liquids for literally centuries. This is disguised as holding industry to honesty, but it's pretty dumb.
Hot Rod Revved Up	Thu Jul 19 10:57:31 Actually, it may help the industries sell more of their product. There may be some folks out there that know they are lactose intolerant but may avoid the products thinking they have lactose in them. And if you think that no one is that stupid just observe some of the posts in this forum.
Rugian Member	Thu Jul 19 11:02:13 Soy is turning millions of American men into pathetic beta cuck nu-males. I fully support the Trump administration's efforts to protect us from the inevitable feminization and man-boobs that soy causes.
RugianLovesTheCock Member	Thu Jul 19 11:32:19 ^loves milking cocks
	show deleted posts

Your Name:
Your Password:
Your Message: