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Posted: 2017-01-13T03:08:19Z | Updated: 2017-01-13T03:10:14Z

Sen. Tammy Baldwin will fight for milk until the cows come home.

Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, otherwise known as Americas Dairyland, introduced the Dairy Pride Act on Thursday to fight back against non-dairy products that are mislabeled as milk, yogurt and cheese, a practice Baldwin says hurts our dairy farmers.

Passage of the bill would mean all nondairy items now labeled as some form of dairy product, including the health-conscious communitys beloved almond milk, would need to undergo name changes. Plant-based cheddar-like nondairy brick?

The bill would support American dairy businesses and protect the integrity of milk by enforcing label restrictions on nondairy options to milk, yogurt and cheese.

Though Food and Drug Administration regulations define dairy products as coming from dairy animals , alternatives remain on the market, often labeled using dairy-specific terms. Baldwins bill targets those products.

Imitation products have gotten away with using dairys good name for their own benefit, the act states.

Still, theres growing evidence that American consumers are loving their options, despite dairys good name.

Almond milk sales rose 250 percent in five years , according to a 2016 consumer report by market-research firm Nielsen. Other milk alternatives, such as cashew and coconut, have also seen increased popularity , reports the Financial Times.

Meanwhile, dairy milk consumption has been on the decline for decades. Department of Agriculture data show that Americans drink 37 percent less milk today than they did in the 1970s.