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The EU has protections these sort of brand dilutions. You can't call it cheese if it doesn't come from milk and you can't call it milk if it doesn't come from a teat.

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Which is weird to me, coconut milk has been "milk" for over 300 years.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coconut%20milk

Which is why it's basically the only exception. No other non-milks are allowed that. Good

But if consumers understand that coconut milk doesn't come from a cow, surely they can understand soy milk doesn't.

Milk is already used for non animal milks as coconut shows, so I don't see this doing anything pro-consumer.

A historical exception isn't an acceptable excuse to muddy the otherwise precisely defined definition further. But that's just my opinion. I'd even wager that coconut liquid may lose its privilege in the near future. Good

Almond milk predates coconut milk by several hundred years even. I remember reading an account by a European man stranded in North America of almond milk but I couldn't find the source again.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almond%20milk https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/almond-milk-obsession-...

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