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Dairy

Three cows in a field, with question marks in a thought bubble connecting to one of them | Photo by Daniel Quiceno M on Unsplash; Illustration by Eddie Marshall

Free Trade

Trump's Steel Tariffs Now Apply to Milk and Hundreds of Other Products That Aren't Steel

It makes little sense, but that's what happens when you give the president unchecked, unilateral tariff powers.

Eric Boehm | 8.20.2025 2:00 PM

Holstein cows in the pasture landscape cloudy day Quebec Canada. | DPST/Newscom

Canada

Quebec's Dairy Farmers Are Blocking Free Trade in Canada

An outdated supply management system—designed to protect Quebec’s small dairy farms—is undermining Canada's global trade ambitions and hurting its own consumers.

Stuart J. Smyth | 6.21.2025 7:00 AM

Milk | ID 74838111 © Puntasit Choksawatdikorn | Dreamstime.com

Food Freedom

Is America Finally Having Its Raw Milk Moment?

Trump’s RFK Jr. nomination and another rumored cabinet ally may give raw milk legalization its biggest boost yet.

C. Jarrett Dieterle | 11.23.2024 7:00 AM

Baby formula shortage. | ID 247734998 © Mariakonosky | Dreamstime.com

Free Trade

U.S. Officials Tried To Block Baby Formula Imports—During a Shortage

One official was concerned that lifting tariffs would lead to "lots of questions from domestic dairy producers."

Emma Camp | 8.27.2024 10:07 AM

Silk soy milk cartons | Richard B. Levine

Congress

John Fetterman Thinks You're Too Dumb To Understand That Vegan 'Milk' Isn't Dairy

The DAIRY PRIDE Act says it wants to protect consumers. In reality, it's trying to protect dairy farmers from economic competition.

Emma Camp | 11.6.2023 3:11 PM

dreamstime_m_21264206 | Photo 21264206 © Yadamons | Dreamstime.com

Food Freedom

School Mandates Milk Propaganda at Anti-Dairy Event

Uncowed, the protest organizer is suing.

Emma Camp | 5.5.2023 4:27 PM

baby formula tariffs free trade shortages Food and Drug Administration FDA Biden Administration Congress infants | Mark Reinstein/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Free Trade

Tariffs on Baby Formula Returned. So Did the Shortages.

Huh, what a wild coincidence.

Eric Boehm | 3.28.2023 12:40 PM

A man pours raw milk in front of cows | Photo 154062635 © David Tadevosian | Dreamstime.com

Food Freedom

State Lawmakers Help Farmers by Improving Consumer Access to Raw Milk

The raw milk restoration is underway.

Baylen Linnekin | 2.25.2023 7:00 AM

FDA: Plant-Based Milk Alternatives Can Keep Calling Their Products ‘Milk’ | Roman Tiraspolsky/Dreamstime.com

Reason Roundup

The FDA Will Let the Soy Boys Have Their Milk

Plus: Google blocks news to Canadian users in advance of pending media law, Arizona considers zoning reform bill, and more...

Christian Britschgi | 2.23.2023 9:34 AM

Cows | Peter Lovás | Dreamstime.com

Brickbats

Brickbat: That Smell

Charles Oliver | 12.20.2022 4:00 AM

baby formula shortage tariffs Biden administration Congress dairy industry protectionism | (Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/Newscom)

Free Trade

Big Dairy Wants Congress To Restore Huge Tariffs on Imported Baby Formula

Unless Congress takes action, those tariffs will return on January 1. And the baby formula shortage hasn't yet passed.

Eric Boehm | 12.19.2022 4:25 PM

Cartons of almond milk at a grocery store | Roman Tiraspolsky / Dreamstime.com

FDA

Do We Really Need the Federal Government To Tell Us What Milk Is?

Everybody knows what almond, oat, and soy milk are. We don’t need the FDA’s intervention, no matter what the dairy lobby claims.

Scott Shackford | 6.6.2022 2:20 PM

dairy-subsidy-litigation | Illustration: Isaac Reese; Source Images: Draftmode/Dreamstime; Phive2015/Dreamstime

Farm Subsidies

Vegan Group Sues the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Promoting Dairy Products

The government should let milk marketing stand on its own four legs.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.8.2021 8:05 AM

labbeefnewscom | CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Newscom

Meat

Cultivated Meat Projected To Be Cheaper Than Conventional Beef by 2030

And produced with a much lower environmental footprint

Ronald Bailey | 3.11.2021 3:10 PM

DairyCow | LJM Photo/Newscom

Canada

Hard Butter Mystery Riles Canada

Is it the cow feed? Dairy regulations? A mass delusion?

Baylen Linnekin | 3.6.2021 8:30 AM

oatmilk |  Richard B. Levine/Newscom

European Union

Europe Considers Orwellian Proposal To Protect Its Dairy Industry From Vegan Competitors

Consumers aren't confused about where plant milks come from. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Baylen Linnekin | 1.30.2021 8:30 AM

topicsphoto2 | Left: Sueddeutsche Zeitung/Alamy. Right: Golden "E" Dairy Farms

Photo

Dumping Milk, Then and Now

Reason Staff | 7.27.2020 6:00 AM

SouthMountainCreamery_1161x653 | South Mountain Creamery

Food Labeling

FDA Backs Away From Absurd 'Skim Milk' Legal Fight

Dairy industry-endorsed regulations required skim milk to be labeled as “imitation” if it hadn’t been enriched with added vitamins.

Scott Shackford | 4.28.2020 2:50 PM

almondmilk_1161x653 | Toon Sang / Dreamstime.com

Brickbats

Brickbat: It Does a Body Good

Charles Oliver | 2.10.2020 4:00 AM

Large image on homepages | BilevichOlga/iStock

Policy

Moooving on From NAFTA

A better deal on dairy with Canada, but at what cost?

Eric Boehm | 2.5.2019 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Joanna Andreasson

Food

'An Almond Doesn't Lactate'

The coming war over nut milks

Mike Riggs | 10.17.2018 6:00 AM

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