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"exploit or defraud (someone), typically by taking regular small amounts of money over a period of time."
If anyone knows milk, its republicans.
What is milk? Bessie, don't herd me. Don't herd me. No more. >

Boob juice. >

Teet gravy >

I don't really care about vegetable based drinks being called milk but the name Buffalo Wings is clearly disinformation and must be outlawed. >

Jessica Simpson has entered the chat >

Yeah, she's not one of Homer and Marge's children at all! >

They put margarine and non-dairy spreads through the same bullshit. Margarine had to be sold undyed at one point so it wasn't the same color as butter. It came in a pouch with a dye pellet you had to pop and knead in.

“Many consumers think that soy milk is actually milk and they’re getting the same nutritional benefits, and they’re not,” Holle noted.

NO ONE thinks soy milk is milk, it is precisely the reason they are buying it. And most brands are enriched to equal the macro profile of dairy milk. Others not so much, but soy generally is. It is generally label readers that buy these products. And milk is a processed food anyway, and enriched also.
Pointless desperate power play that will win them nothing. Milk sales are down but dairy as a whole is WAY UP as more yogurt and cheese is being consumed than ever before. They need to chill. >

Coconut milk begs to differ. >

Glad to see our politicians focusing on the real issues. /s >

You should have seen what they were focusing on yesterday! >

Who gives a shit? >

It's true, they should call it cow juice. >


Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

No, milk has a definition.
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This is just liars seeking to ignore objective facts to profit.  You know, conservatives being conservative.  Commerce is free speech kind of thing.
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They need to call something that isn't milk milk so they can sell it as milk. >

"exploit or defraud (someone), typically by taking regular small amounts of money over a period of time."
If anyone knows milk, its republicans. >

“Rep. Dawson Holle, a Mandan Republican and dairy farmer, is sponsoring House Bill 1255, which would clarify in state law that “milk” is a “lacteal secretion” obtained from a hoofed mammal.”
So I guess cat - and human - milk would need a new name >

Is this the new culture war? >

It's the old culture war from the before times (2 or 3 years ago).  But, in the remote regions of North Dakota, they haven't even heard of the Second Battle of Dr. Seuss, or the Chrishanukwanza Accords. >

Wunderkind is an idiot. Sorry. Nobody who buys soy milk or any other “dairy milk substitute” actually believes they are actually buying milk. Generally speaking, people buy milk substitutes BECAUSE they are just that—a substitute. >

What a beautiful headline. Ruminate! >

Fulminate! >

Remember, they call it "almond milk" because nobody can say "nut juice" with a straight face >

...nut juice... Teehee!! runs away >

Back in the old days to protect their dairy industries from margarine, some states required margarine to be tinted an offputting pink color. According to my grandmother, they were not allowed to add food coloring to margarine here in Washington. You would get a tub of margarine with a tiny little bottle of yellow food coloring and had to mix it in yourself if you wanted it to look like butter. >

Kenton Holle, Dawson Holle’s grandfather and a lobbyist for the North Dakota Milk Producers Association, told the Republican-led committee that the labeling of plant-based milk is “a subject that has been under the saddle of dairy producers for a long time.”
Ya just can't make this stuff up >

Apparently they can 🤷‍♂️ >

Here we go again, uneducated rednecks confused at the store. Afraid they will be poisoned by soymilk. Now they will demand a law making a separate case far away in the store for anything not from a cow. Then rant soybean prices are in the toilet. >

Malk. >

These are truly the philosophical mysteries of our age >

Nice milk pun in the title >

If you cant milk it, it's not milk imo. >

I Have Nipples, Greg. Can You Milk Me? >

I understood this reference.
For real, though, you can milk a man real good by nipple play. >

Welp that's enough Internet for tonight. >

The important questions of our time. >

Milk seems to involve some squeezing of something: almonds, tofu, teats. Coconut milk  requires something more forceful. >

Guy is an 18 yr old dairy farmer, explains a lot >

Cow juice. >

I don't really care about vegetable based drinks being called milk but the name Buffalo Wings is clearly disinformation and must be outlawed. >

Jessica Simpson has entered the chat >

Yeah, she's not one of Homer and Marge's children at all! >

Glad to see our politicians focusing on the real issues. /s >

You should have seen what they were focusing on yesterday! >

What is milk? Bessie, don't herd me. Don't herd me. No more. >

Boob juice. >

Teet gravy >

“Rep. Dawson Holle, a Mandan Republican and dairy farmer, is sponsoring House Bill 1255, which would clarify in state law that “milk” is a “lacteal secretion” obtained from a hoofed mammal.”
So I guess cat - and human - milk would need a new name >

Wunderkind is an idiot. Sorry. Nobody who buys soy milk or any other “dairy milk substitute” actually believes they are actually buying milk. Generally speaking, people buy milk substitutes BECAUSE they are just that—a substitute. >

Coconut milk begs to differ. >

Who gives a shit? >

Is this the new culture war? >

It's the old culture war from the before times (2 or 3 years ago).  But, in the remote regions of North Dakota, they haven't even heard of the Second Battle of Dr. Seuss, or the Chrishanukwanza Accords. >

Sure, part of the reason for this is how big ag owns government in agricultural states.
But another part of it is the inevitable decline of literacy and the nuances of language people took for granted in previous generations, that now seems to be of no interest to people.
"Milk" is a generic category. It can refer to color, texture and function. It is used as a noun, and a verb, in ways that does not involve the lactation of animals. This is how we use language in myriad ways. It's not a special exception for terms that only benefit big corporations.
If misguided lawmakers accept however campaign donors think we should use language, it will only accelerate our descent into illiteracy. Command of language is the difference between always being told what to think, and never truly being captains of our destiny, and knowing what to think from the evidence of our senses and having the ability to express it verbally to others, thereby making our own fortunes. Literacy is as American as apple pie. Don't let ideologues steal it from you. >

Idaho? Or a Dakota, I don’t remember—is trying to redefine the word gender to mean assigned sex at birth and/or “what the person’s DNA says”. Changing meanings of long-established words and legislating the meaning of words in order to promote an agenda is definitely NOT how government should work. >

It's true, they should call it cow juice. >


Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

No, milk has a definition.
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This is just liars seeking to ignore objective facts to profit.  You know, conservatives being conservative.  Commerce is free speech kind of thing.
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They need to call something that isn't milk milk so they can sell it as milk.