(I wonder how much those inventors (above) will charge, if they ever succeed in making fake almost-milk?)
Now, if only we could get cows to produce Chivas Regal 12 year old Scotch for two or three bucks a liter, instead of $50+...
Posted on 09/04/2016 7:24:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For Perumal Gandhi and Ryan Pandya, the impetus to start their company in 2014 really came down to cheese.
Gandhi, now 25, was trying to cut back on meat and dairy for sustainability and animal welfare reasons, but he desperately missed pizza. Pandya, 24, was experimenting with veganism but one incident in particular gave him pause: He bought a bagel slathered with dairy-free cream cheese that was so sad and soppy that it dripped all over his leg.
“It’s asking a lot of someone to become vegan,” says Pandya. Cheese is only the beginning. As he puts it, “you have to shift your entire identity.”
Both were trained in biomedical engineering and concluded there had to be a better way. Pandya, for example, was working on making vaccines using proteins and small molecules and wondered if the same technology could be used to make milk proteins....
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
Lol! Thanks. I happened to have had the episode on my PC. So I took a few appropriate screenshots and posted them to my PhotoBucket account in order to relay them to FR, then added the commentary. Been doing this sort of thing here for years. Thanks again. :)
I know vegetarianism is unnatural because I can buy “meat substitutes” like vegiburgers that try to mimic meat. If we’re meant to only eat plants, then bacon wouldn’t taste so good and they wouldn’t have to fake us out with vegiburgers.
Don’t know how many of you remember, but there was an episode of Green Acres where they tried to get Oliver to invest in some eccentric old farmer’s so-called milk making machine which he made from an oil drum. To get it to produce milk you simply shoved some hay into a slot.
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These new guys may have to pay a royalty.
Can you do this with human DNA?
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There could be a market for those allergic to cow’s milk.
(I wonder how much those inventors (above) will charge, if they ever succeed in making fake almost-milk?)
Now, if only we could get cows to produce Chivas Regal 12 year old Scotch for two or three bucks a liter, instead of $50+...
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