> Conversely, the food industry has taken names such as "milk" and "water", and expanded their definitions far beyond what common people recognize as those substances. Always receiving legal assent to sell fruit juice [nuts are fruits] with a mammalian name.

People don't seem to be complaining about that substance (not to be named) that usually goes with jelly on bread, and is not actually a dairy product.

This timeline is interesting: https://www.soyinfocenter.com/pdf/166/Milk.pdf