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This Startup Wants to Make Cow's Milk—Without Cows
Fortune ^ | August 31, 2016 | Beth Kowitt

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 ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Science
KEYWORDS: 3dprinters; 3dprinting; cheese; milk
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1 posted on 09/04/2016 7:24:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Becoming a vegan is hard. You get to feel sickly all the time, you can’t eat delicious meat, or dairy, and everyone hates you because you can’t shutup about how great it is to be a vegan.


2 posted on 09/04/2016 7:27:03 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Real vegans will NOT accept this.

They then obtained a cow’s DNA sequence, had it printed using a 3D-printer, and inserted it into a specific location of the yeast.

Did the cow give PERMISSION to use her DNA? Did she, huh?
3 posted on 09/04/2016 7:31:17 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

I am from WI, do not mess with cheese


4 posted on 09/04/2016 7:55:02 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tofutti has already had a non-dairy cream cheese out for years. It’s not bad, if you want a bagel with a schmear but you’ve just eaten meat (Ashkenazi Jews must wait 6 hrs. to eat dairy after eating meat).


5 posted on 09/04/2016 8:00:22 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


6 posted on 09/04/2016 8:16:21 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They then obtained a cow’s DNA sequence, had it printed using a 3D-printer, and inserted it into a specific location of the yeast.

Can you do this with human DNA?

Soylent Green is no longer people. It's not people.

7 posted on 09/04/2016 8:37:38 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Muammar Gaddafi had donated to the Clinton Foundation he would still be alive and in power today.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just more proof of how unnatural the vegan lifestyle is.

We are meant to eat animal products. We are meant to eat meat as well but we can survive without it but not without animal products.

And there is no reason not to take and use animal products. Milking a cow does it no harm, eating the egg does not harm the chicken, eating honey does not harm the hive.

But by all means lets construct huge factories to come up with an expensive imitation of the same product you can make in your kitchen with simple real ingredients.

8 posted on 09/04/2016 8:41:15 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2grOlvM3ok


9 posted on 09/04/2016 8:53:14 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (Karl Marx Treatment Center- -"We will tell you what to think" http://thepeoplescube.com/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We could bring the cost of milk down in the West just by eliminating dairy subsidies. In some European nations, the cow subsidy is $1000 or more a year - more than what it takes to keep a poor third worlder alive.


10 posted on 09/04/2016 9:06:16 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"They then obtained a cow’s DNA sequence, had it printed using a 3D-printer, and inserted it into a specific location of the yeast."

What? How do they print anything on the molecular level of DNA?

11 posted on 09/04/2016 9:07:29 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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Look up the keyword “3Dprinter” here for some interesting articles.


12 posted on 09/04/2016 9:10:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Bovine appropriation?


13 posted on 09/04/2016 9:10:55 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: jonrick46
How do they print anything on the molecular level of DNA?

One amino acid at a time?

14 posted on 09/04/2016 9:12:15 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: jonrick46
What? How do they print anything on the molecular level of DNA?

The answer is: Science!

Regards,

15 posted on 09/04/2016 9:23:35 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: UB355

I won’t live in a world without cheese.


16 posted on 09/04/2016 9:38:35 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ETL


For chocolate milk, simply engage the metallic switch marked
"synthetic cocoa" on the side of the rubberized udder assembly.

17 posted on 09/04/2016 9:40:54 PM PDT by Heart-Rest (Make America Great Again!)
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To: alexander_busek

You mean molecular Nano Technology?


18 posted on 09/04/2016 11:14:47 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Heart-Rest
Loony Lou's Milk Making Machine - Green Acres

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After sampling the milk and finding it perfectly fine, Oliver seriously considers investing in Loony Lou's milk making device. So he brings a sample of the milk to a chemist friend of his in New York to have it analyzed. Turns out it does indeed have all the main components of milk. However, it also contains one "magic", very expensive, ingredient which would shoot the cost per gallon to $40! He informs his business partners in Hooterville of the apparent deal-breaking results of the tests -- that it would cost them $40 to produce a single gallon of the artificial milk, and Mr Haney immediately responds, "That's no problem. We'll just charge $50... (a gallon)". County agent/fellow investor Hank Kimball follows, "Now that's good thinking Haney!", pauses a moment to reflect and adds, "Well, it's not 'GOOD' thinking"... Anyway, the episode was titled The Milk Maker.

19 posted on 09/05/2016 4:05:06 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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Is there anything a “Freeper” can’t come up with on a moments notice? You should be given an award for this post...


20 posted on 09/05/2016 4:47:30 AM PDT by Russ
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