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A Milk Startup Takes on 300M Cows
- sebastianavina 8y agoMexican Lala goes to india I guess?
- gonvaled 8y agoNot sure what you imply, but chlorinated chicken
- debacle 8y agoI love this picture: https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/B3-BA230_0704MI_M_20180704165807.jpg https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/B3-BA230_0704MI_M... Something about the woman in the lab coat, with a generation of men standing around her while the older generation looks on, calf and all. It's very reminiscent of early 20th century paintings from the US.
- 21 8y agoThere truly is a stock photo for everything. Business woman with headset and laptop milking cow: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/woman-milking-cow-business-farm-32612992.jpg https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/woman-milking-cow-business-f... https://st2.depositphotos.com/4319567/7421/i/950/depositphotos_74215425-stock-photo-businesswoman-milking-cow-on-farm.jpg https://st2.depositphotos.com/4319567/7421/i/950/depositphot...
- neonate 8y agohttp://archive.is/xeCxt http://archive.is/xeCxt
- amingilani 8y agoI came to ask for a non-paywall link, thank you for posting this. Not all heroes wear capes.
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- dangerboysteve 8y agoodd arhive.is does not work with 1.1.1.1 but does with google dns.
- baxtr 8y agoIt's a controversial issue, but I try to refrain from eating any type of dairy products (with mixed results) because of two main reasons: - It seems that science is supporting a vegan lifestyle for longevity/a longer health span [1] - Cows are so bad for the environment... [1] https://valterlongo.com/daily-longevity-diet/ https://valterlongo.com/daily-longevity-diet/
- 21 8y agoThis is a weird one: > Select ingredients among those discussed in this book that your ancestors would have eaten. I'm pretty sure my ancestors never ate bananas, oranges, kale, quinoa, avocado and everything else which wasn't present in Europe 500 years ago.
- baxtr 8y agoIn the book he is referring to the generation before your parents. I believe because they did not have access to anything that was produced by a chemical plant
- mattkrause 8y agoThe generation before my parents (i.e., my grandparents) were born around the time that The Jungle was published, which describes food so tainted that the outcry lead to the formation of the Food and Drug Administration The 50s were full of canned and processed foods too.
- zdragnar 8y agoFor me, that generation also did not have access to kale, quinoa, or avocados. Bananas and oranges were a rare treat, because getting them fresh was utterly impractical and expensive where they lived. One side were farmers, the other lower class city folk who got their chickens in cans, and had to over cook pork until it would shatter if you dropped it just to be sure that it was safe to eat. That generation grew up without refridgeration; there was very little in the way of fresh foos during winter months as everything had to be preserved in cans or dried. I for one ame glad for our modern food supply.
- steve19 8y agoA friend of mine, a chemistry teacher, taught in an Indian school for a number of years. He said a huge problem was buying milk for the students that wasn't cut with bad water and/or other chemicals. They tried paying above market price, equivalent to the price of pure milk, and it worked for a while, but he kept testing the milk and found the vendor eventually started diluting the milk. I guess the temptation was great. This startup looks like it may solve that problem!
- nordsieck 8y agoApparently many people in China buy imported powdered milk for the same reason - the local stuff may be adulterated.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoNot that the powder being imported stops adulteration from happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal There is a cottage industry in Australia and New Zealand of people sending back milk powder and infant formula to China, often with newspapers or other proof that the package originated in Australia or NZ. There's no guarantee that the "NZ milk powder" you buy in China is real, however a sealed package from NZ is fairly certainly going to be real. I used to have a colleague from China who would bring an extra suitcase filled with infant formula and multivitamins evert time he went back home to China for his relatives. There are now limits on the amount of infant formula you can buy at supermarkets here, especially in areas with a high concentration of Asian immigrants. Supermarket shelves were getting cleared out by grey-market exporters.
- chii 8y agoI'm surprised the response to grey market exporters is to limit sales. Why not produce more? I don't believe there's a shortage of milk in Aus.
- thisisit 8y agoIt might also have to do something with demand and income levels. As both of them rise people who could afford buying unadulterated milk meant the vendor had bigger demands to meet. Now he could either raise the price, something which might be frowned upon. Or start diluting the milk unless he is caught and forced to raise the price.
- snambi 8y agoHuh... the last thing you want is a company that tries to "invent" some nonsense to improve the "cows".