I have been trying all different types of milk alternatives like oat milk, almond milk etc. But none of them taste similar to cow’s milk. I know a lot of it has to do with familiarity with the milk I’ve been drinking all my life. But I want to understand why there has not been a lab-created cow’s milk yet.
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The pea protein milk by Sproud is by far the closest thing I’ve found taste wise, and best overall in terms of nutrition and environmental impact. I don’t know if any other brands make it. It is pricey though.
if you were to synthetically create milk for human consumption shouldn’t be human milk? just wondering
Have you tried the brand Not Milk yet? They basically used science to replicate the dairy taste
People need to realize that life is what technology looks like if you have 4 billion years of trial and error to figure out what works inside a living system with limited resources and space.
Instead of factories assembling products from solid parts, life assembles organisms by stacking cells in different order. You’d be shocked and amazed by how little difference there is between the skeletal structure of a human and a squirrel but the reason that’s true is that’s the best design; the one that survived.
Cows ARE milk and meat creating labs. They’re also alive, im not saying that should be discounted, but we’ve only been doing synthetic biology for 50 years or so, and we’re trying to make meat in a lab, like it can POSSIBLY be more efficient than a cow.
Im all for animal welfare and cows having a proper cow life. But it’s entirely natural for a cow to live and graze and then be eaten by us. The milking thing is a little weird, but my point is that we’re never going to make a lab grown version of anything that’s more efficient than the animal because we aren’t as smart as we think we are.
If we weren’t going extinct and had worked on this stuff without being in such a rush to do it all in one lifetime, eventually, our technology would resemble life because, at least on earth, the life that surrounds us is the best adapted technology to the conditions it’s exposed to.
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