Got Milk? ND lawmakers introduce bill to change definition of milk

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – Lawmakers have launched a invoice that may change the definition of one thing you’ve in all probability bought in your house proper now.

How do you outline milk? If you happen to used the North Dakota Century Code as your dictionary, you’d say, “the lacteal secretion of a cow.” However Home Invoice 1255 would change that.

It could outline milk because the lacteal secretion obtained by the whole milking of a wholesome hooved mammal, together with any member of the order Cetartiodactyla and together with a member of the household Bovidae, Cervidae, and Equidae. Meaning, if this invoice is handed, milk would come from animals like cattle, water buffalo, goats and yaks, reindeer, even horses and donkeys.

“Camels, water buffalo, there are some unique ones, however I used to be like, if I’m doing this invoice, I wish to embrace every thing so there’s no onerous emotions, and if the zoo desires to exploit camels and promote it, they’ll I suppose, so,” mentioned Consultant Dawson Holle, a Republican from Mandan.

Consultant Holle says this can be a small step that he believes will develop the dairy business. Consultant Holle additionally launched a invoice that may permit North Dakota dairy farmers to promote uncooked milk on to prospects. That one hasn’t been scheduled but.

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