Is the Trump administration synonymous with onerous business regulations? Apparently so if you’re a company that makes plant-based milks.

The Food and Drug Administration just announced that it plans to start cracking down on manufacturers of plant-based milks for using dairy-related terms on labels. What this would mean in practice is that soy milk could not legally be called soy milk (likewise for almond, coconut, rice, hemp, macadamia, and so on).

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