FDA is charged with creating and enforcing "standards of identity". While it's certainly possible that dairy interests leaned on the FDA for business purposes, they are not out of line with trying to enforce the standards they set.
I'm no fan of regulations any more than anyone else here but take the lowly tomato as an example. There's tomato juice, sauce, paste and of course, ketchup. What's the difference? Mostly, just the amount of water in it. But how pissed off would you be if your bottle labeled "ketchup" poured out on your fries like juice or your super-healthy tomato juice was undrinkable because it was actually tomato paste. Standards of identity define how much water (among other things) can go into a given product so it can be properly labeled ketchup or juice or sauce and performs as expected at the point of use.
You can argue that the standard for what's called "milk" should be changed to remove lactation exclusivity but in an environment where we'll soon be eating "meat" grown in a lab I kinda like someone looking out for stuff like this.
I don't want Government doing anything except securing the damn borders and safeguarding opportunity while leaving us the hell alone.
Standards of Identity are simply Lawyers and Marketing companies colluding to try and make their products exclusive by using government to grant them monopoly on terms. There are lots of food products like coconuts that are milky, because the term describes more than just a lactation product - it also identifies consistency.
We already have government regulations regarding labelling products 'Real Dairy' on the label. We do not need them to regulate the term 'milk'.
As Applewood noted, this is just an effort by the Taxpayer Subsidized and government-protected dairy industry to stem alternate products cutting into their profits. That is all.
Just another form of Fascism.
I don;t need nor want government regulating