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Slightly off-topic, but how far are we from producing artificial milk? It would seem like a relatively easy thing to do (at least compared to meat), and with hi
by cedex12 10y ago
Slightly off-topic, but how far are we from producing artificial milk? It would seem like a relatively easy thing to do (at least compared to meat), and with high payoff (vegetarian diet without the ethical and ecological problems of animal dairy).
- Synaesthesia 10y agoThere's really nice artificial milk for sale - soy milk
- rydl 10y ago...also milk from rice, almond, oat...
- mathw 10y agoAre any of these nutritionally equivalent to cow's milk? Or human milk? Or some kind of adult-biased version of human milk? Oh wait, yeah. Soylent, Huel, Mana, 100%Food etc. etc. etc. are effectively "artificial milk for adult humans", at least in their liquid forms rather than the ones who sell packaged meal bars as well.
- NikolaeVarius 10y agoWhy does it matter? Milk nutritionally is simple to replace. It's sugar water with fat and some assorted vitamins. It doesn't have anything that isn't easily replaceable.
- contergan 10y agoNone of those taste anything like real milk.
- pherq 10y agoWe've had it for 2000 years, give or take...
- levthedev 10y agoThere are a couple companies tackling this problem. Ripple uses peas and is on shelves now - I tried it and it was pretty good, better than soymilk but not as good as real milk. What I'm really excited for is when milk is being produced in vats with a combination of cow gut bacteria and grass - in theory a mechanical cow's stomach could produce milk that was indistinguishable in taste from real milk but cheaper, cruelty free, cleaner, etc.