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Milk

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

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

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

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

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

Photo

Dumping Milk, Then and Now

Reason Staff | 7.27.2020 6:00 AM

almondmilk_1161x653 | Toon Sang / Dreamstime.com

Brickbats

Brickbat: It Does a Body Good

Charles Oliver | 2.10.2020 4:00 AM

DairyMilker | Jim West/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Farm Subsidies

The Nation's Biggest Dairy Is Failing Despite Relentless Government Intervention

Government has tilted the scales in milk's favor for so long that dairies forgot how to compete.

Baylen Linnekin | 11.30.2019 8:30 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

Large image on homepages | Sergey Zavalnyuk/Dreamstime

Nutrition

Whole Fat Dairy: It Does a Body Good*

Consuming whole fat dairy foods lowers mortality and cardiovascular risks, according to a new Lancet study.

Ronald Bailey | 9.18.2018 2:05 PM

Large image on homepages | Ocheesee Creamery

Food Labeling

Appeals Court Embraces Free Speech, Rules Skim Milk is 'Skim Milk'

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt an important ruling for food freedom this week.

Baylen Linnekin | 3.25.2017 8:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Ocheesee Creamery

Food Labeling

Good News! A Court Has Ruled This Skim Milk Can Be Called Skim Milk!

A decision so plainly obvious must have roots in intrusive government regulations.

Scott Shackford | 3.21.2017 1:35 PM

Large image on homepages | Endre Majoros / Flickr

FDA

Shocker: Dairy Industry Urges FDA to Crack Down on Milk Alternatives

A new bill not surprisingly has several Wisconsin lawmakers' support.

Lindsay Marchello | 3.6.2017 2:49 PM

Large image on homepages | Roland Weihrauch/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom

FDA

Senator Pushes a Ridiculous "Milk" Law That Treats Consumers Like Idiots

The "Dairy Pride Act" calls for the FDA to crack down on cow-dairy alternatives that use terms like "milk" or "yogurt."

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.18.2017 2:55 PM

Large image on homepages | Anna Krivitskaia / Dreamstime.com

Milk

Government Must Stop Protecting Cow Milk Producers from Competition

Lawmakers try to further restrict who can use the term 'milk.'

Baylen Linnekin | 1.7.2017 8:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Ocheesee Creamery

Food Labeling

Dairy Lobby Sides with Florida in Orwellian Attempt to Redefine 'Skim Milk'

According to state regulators, skim milk = skim milk + mandated additives.

Baylen Linnekin | 9.10.2016 8:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Ocheesee Creamery

Policy

Federal Judge Rules Skim Milk Isn't 'Skim Milk'

This is what happens when government regulators control definitions of words.

Baylen Linnekin | 4.9.2016 8:00 AM

Large image on homepages | mapper-montag / photo on flickr

Policy

New Documentary Exposes How Montana's Milk-Expiration Rules Waste Food

Milk that's still fresh is declared "expired" and must be thrown away.

Baylen Linnekin | 2.27.2016 8:00 AM

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Milk

Milk: Government Nutrition Nannies Wrong Again?

Add milk to your diet of salt, red meat, and eggs.

Ronald Bailey | 10.7.2015 11:47 AM

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Economics

Government Forces Natural Skim Milk Sellers to Label Their Milk "Imitation"

It isn't real unless you add to it what government demands you add, says Florida Ag Department

Brian Doherty | 8.21.2015 2:19 PM

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Biotechnology

Ronald Bailey Explains How Real Factories Will Replace Factory Farms

Room for buffalo to roam and antelope to play.

Reason Staff | 3.20.2015 1:30 PM

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Economics

The End of Farming

Real factories will replace factory farms

Ronald Bailey | 3.20.2015 10:00 AM

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