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Vegan Milk
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The objection I share is to the DNA being required at all. Animals are still being exploited even if it is less so. I would like to know the nutritional values attached too this product for a full evaluation for it being any better than the range of grain/seed milks on the market. As it stands my opinion is "go without". No animal DNA, no animal harm.
I would have more respect for those of you females so very anxious to have a "good cheese" or similar texture had some of you volunteered your own DNA for use in this product. You would have had the choice to be exploited or not rather than this being another "product input" expected of some animal. Your donation of DNA will have the added benefits of providing something more in keeping with humanities needs with a lesser allergy rate. Or is this idea too repugnant for you?
As for the use of animal excrement. Unless you spray it directly on the growing plants, its applied in the autumn which gives time for the weathering process to happen and it will be reduced to its finer particles. If one owns a horse for recreation or relaxation or donkey, what would you do with the piles of excrement at your stables, you still have to pick up from fields where the animals are grazing for most of the time. You prefer the idea of petrochemicals being used instead?
Thank you for the comment, your wife banned from the kitchen. I hope your wife and your daughter will be reconciled. My dil has not changed in 30 years, I can see her changing now, she took a simple action as a personal snub. The rift her actions caused a deep rift in the family.
I'm not vegan, but I am female, and interested in reducing harm to animals, and I would happily donate my own DNA to the milk project.
But I would argue that if using a handful of cows for this project meant that millions of cows would not be raised and exploited as dairy cows, that would be a good thing.5 -
The objection I share is to the DNA being required at all. Animals are still being exploited even if it is less so. I would like to know the nutritional values attached too this product for a full evaluation for it being any better than the range of grain/seed milks on the market. As it stands my opinion is "go without". No animal DNA, no animal harm.
I would have more respect for those of you females so very anxious to have a "good cheese" or similar texture had some of you volunteered your own DNA for use in this product. You would have had the choice to be exploited or not rather than this being another "product input" expected of some animal. Your donation of DNA will have the added benefits of providing something more in keeping with humanities needs with a lesser allergy rate. Or is this idea too repugnant for you?
As for the use of animal excrement. Unless you spray it directly on the growing plants, its applied in the autumn which gives time for the weathering process to happen and it will be reduced to its finer particles. If one owns a horse for recreation or relaxation or donkey, what would you do with the piles of excrement at your stables, you still have to pick up from fields where the animals are grazing for most of the time. You prefer the idea of petrochemicals being used instead?
Thank you for the comment, your wife banned from the kitchen. I hope your wife and your daughter will be reconciled. My dil has not changed in 30 years, I can see her changing now, she took a simple action as a personal snub. The rift her actions caused a deep rift in the family.
Now I can't stop thinking about the ethics of manure...
My mom has used local manure since the 70's. Currently from her neighbors who have horses. When I was a kid we raised goats.
I used to live down the street from people who raised donkeys and would put their aged manure out for sale on the street. I could see the donkeys in their big field and felt better about this than buying Black Kow manure from Home Depot, as that is surely from cows from factory farms. But am I supporting CAFOs with my purchase of this product when their main purpose is creating meat or dairy?
(I would argue that having horses for recreation is still exploitation of animals; it's just not as cruel and barbaric like what happens on CAFOs.)
But if using manure that was a by product of raising cows for meat or dairy is ok, what about leather? Wearing leather seems to me to be more symbolic of animal exploitation than using manure.
If thrift shop leather is ok, is thrift shop fur ok?
Questions, questions...1 -
My comment on "excrement" was in response to Jellyroll's remark. I referred to "no animal input" may be, had I said something like, "direct animal input", or possibly "no animal tissue or fluid", I might have been more clearly understood. Excrement is, in my view, an indirect input.
Bees, beetles and other small insects which go about their uninhibited in their way of life. Their "life cycle" doing what they do, what they need to do, to replace themselves and keep their species represented in the now decreasing, once long list of life forms on this planet is natural. So if seeds, fruits and the like, are used as food breaking part of the cycle of plant reproduction, some seeds need to go through the digestive tracts of appropriate (to the plant) animals to ensure subsequent germination, That again is Nature. Plants left to their own devices produce enough and more seeds to guarantee, in their natural historic environment, sufficient plants and more to replace themselves. Nature's expectation is some potential will be lost along the way from seed to seed pod or tuber.
As for my dil, she does have dietary intolerances and is an ethical Vegan. The meat was a slice of shop cut cold ham, so it was cold just taken from the fridge to be eaten from cold, the cross contamination risk of debris as suggested cooking juices dropping from it were non-existent. She could have been more mindful of the elderly persons in whose home she was a guest. Picking up another point we are all entitled to find "smells" totally disgusting, how we express it is usually within our personal control.
I've run the idea of this Vegan milk with "Bovine DNA", past several UK vegetarian and Vegan friends and they all came back with the same view of this product, "its not vegan". I would very much doubt it would ever be accepted over here as you all seem to embrace it over there down to the potential desirable cheese!
Were the cows consulted before the DNA was taken, were they able to consent? My understanding of DNA is, it carries the blueprint for life and the processes thereof, expressed in/by chromosomes. So taking/steeling the Bovine DNA without their explicit "consent" of said herd of dairy cattle, their being sentient animals, took/stole the process from them. Just because you can do something does not make it right.
This so called "milk" still has animal origins, (the DNA).0 -
My comment on "excrement" was in response to Jellyroll's remark. I referred to "no animal input" may be, had I said something like, "direct animal input", or possibly "no animal tissue or fluid", I might have been more clearly understood. Excrement is, in my view, an indirect input.
Bees, beetles and other small insects which go about their uninhibited in their way of life. Their "life cycle" doing what they do, what they need to do, to replace themselves and keep their species represented in the now decreasing, once long list of life forms on this planet is natural. So if seeds, fruits and the like, are used as food breaking part of the cycle of plant reproduction, some seeds need to go through the digestive tracts of appropriate (to the plant) animals to ensure subsequent germination, That again is Nature. Plants left to their own devices produce enough and more seeds to guarantee, in their natural historic environment, sufficient plants and more to replace themselves. Nature's expectation is some potential will be lost along the way from seed to seed pod or tuber.
As for my dil, she does have dietary intolerances and is an ethical Vegan. The meat was a slice of shop cut cold ham, so it was cold just taken from the fridge to be eaten from cold, the cross contamination risk of debris as suggested cooking juices dropping from it were non-existent. She could have been more mindful of the elderly persons in whose home she was a guest. Picking up another point we are all entitled to find "smells" totally disgusting, how we express it is usually within our personal control.
I've run the idea of this Vegan milk with "Bovine DNA", past several UK vegetarian and Vegan friends and they all came back with the same view of this product, "its not vegan". I would very much doubt it would ever be accepted over here as you all seem to embrace it over there down to the potential desirable cheese!
Were the cows consulted before the DNA was taken, were they able to consent? My understanding of DNA is, it carries the blueprint for life and the processes thereof, expressed in/by chromosomes. So taking/steeling the Bovine DNA without their explicit "consent" of said herd of dairy cattle, their being sentient animals, took/stole the process from them. Just because you can do something does not make it right.
This so called "milk" still has animal origins, (the DNA).
By referring to "you all," you seem to be ignoring the people in this conversation are one ethical vegan who has said she is unsure whether or not she'd consume it and made one flippant comment about missing blue cheese (that's me) and a few non-vegans who are being thoughtful about their participation in animal exploitation and are generally open to considering products of this type. To compare this group to your vegetarian/vegan friends to try to make this a UK vs US vegan standoff is outlandish. If you asked a group of US vegans about this product, I promise you that some of them would find it unacceptable as well (as you could also likely find some UK vegans who might be willing to consider consuming it).
I don't understand the POV that it's okay to farm an animal, sell their milk and flesh, and then make additional profit off their manure and consider the manure vegan, but that it's somehow crossing an exploitation brightline by using their DNA in an attempt to prevent the real and very profound suffering that millions and millions of animals undergo in the name of bringing dairy to human dining tables.
The manure can't be viewed as a single isolated product that is somehow being gathered at no harm to the animals. It's part of the overall profit that farmers make from the animals that they're using in all sorts of ways so you can't handwave it away as not somehow being "animal input." It's not "nature's expectation" that farmers will sell manure from the animals they're keeping in productivity. It's not an "indirect input" anymore than farmers selling things like hooves and connective tissue for gelatin are. It's part of the whole superstructure that keeps animal agriculture profitable.
If you wish to withdraw your statement about "no animal input," I completely understand. I agree that it isn't a useful way to measure veganism.
Yes, this product has "animal origins." So do the vegetables on our plate made with animal based fertilizer, things like manure or bone meal. I'm arguing that a coherent theory of veganism goes beyond the "ew ham is in the vicinity of my plate" argument and instead focuses on considering the impact to the animals and actually ending animal exploitation.6 -
janejellyroll wrote: »My comment on "excrement" was in response to Jellyroll's remark. I referred to "no animal input" may be, had I said something like, "direct animal input", or possibly "no animal tissue or fluid", I might have been more clearly understood. Excrement is, in my view, an indirect input.
Bees, beetles and other small insects which go about their uninhibited in their way of life. Their "life cycle" doing what they do, what they need to do, to replace themselves and keep their species represented in the now decreasing, once long list of life forms on this planet is natural. So if seeds, fruits and the like, are used as food breaking part of the cycle of plant reproduction, some seeds need to go through the digestive tracts of appropriate (to the plant) animals to ensure subsequent germination, That again is Nature. Plants left to their own devices produce enough and more seeds to guarantee, in their natural historic environment, sufficient plants and more to replace themselves. Nature's expectation is some potential will be lost along the way from seed to seed pod or tuber.
As for my dil, she does have dietary intolerances and is an ethical Vegan. The meat was a slice of shop cut cold ham, so it was cold just taken from the fridge to be eaten from cold, the cross contamination risk of debris as suggested cooking juices dropping from it were non-existent. She could have been more mindful of the elderly persons in whose home she was a guest. Picking up another point we are all entitled to find "smells" totally disgusting, how we express it is usually within our personal control.
I've run the idea of this Vegan milk with "Bovine DNA", past several UK vegetarian and Vegan friends and they all came back with the same view of this product, "its not vegan". I would very much doubt it would ever be accepted over here as you all seem to embrace it over there down to the potential desirable cheese!
Were the cows consulted before the DNA was taken, were they able to consent? My understanding of DNA is, it carries the blueprint for life and the processes thereof, expressed in/by chromosomes. So taking/steeling the Bovine DNA without their explicit "consent" of said herd of dairy cattle, their being sentient animals, took/stole the process from them. Just because you can do something does not make it right.
This so called "milk" still has animal origins, (the DNA).
By referring to "you all," you seem to be ignoring the people in this conversation are one ethical vegan who has said she is unsure whether or not she'd consume it and made one flippant comment about missing blue cheese (that's me) and a few non-vegans who are being thoughtful about their participation in animal exploitation and are generally open to considering products of this type. To compare this group to your vegetarian/vegan friends to try to make this a UK vs US vegan standoff is outlandish. If you asked a group of US vegans about this product, I promise you that some of them would find it unacceptable as well (as you could also likely find some UK vegans who might be willing to consider consuming it).
I don't understand the POV that it's okay to farm an animal, sell their milk and flesh, and then make additional profit off their manure and consider the manure vegan, but that it's somehow crossing an exploitation brightline by using their DNA in an attempt to prevent the real and very profound suffering that millions and millions of animals undergo in the name of bringing dairy to human dining tables.
The manure can't be viewed as a single isolated product that is somehow being gathered at no harm to the animals. It's part of the overall profit that farmers make from the animals that they're using in all sorts of ways so you can't handwave it away as not somehow being "animal input." It's not "nature's expectation" that farmers will sell manure from the animals they're keeping in productivity. It's not an "indirect input" anymore than farmers selling things like hooves and connective tissue for gelatin are. It's part of the whole superstructure that keeps animal agriculture profitable.
If you wish to withdraw your statement about "no animal input," I completely understand. I agree that it isn't a useful way to measure veganism.
Yes, this product has "animal origins." So do the vegetables on our plate made with animal based fertilizer, things like manure or bone meal. I'm arguing that a coherent theory of veganism goes beyond the "ew ham is in the vicinity of my plate" argument and instead focuses on considering the impact to the animals and actually ending animal exploitation.
It's ironic you mention bone meal. I wish I didn't know about chicks being ground up and I put some organic fertilizer on a small orange tree this year that I have in the yard. My dogs were going nuts over the smell of this stuff. Then I started remembering how male chicks are ground up in egg production and wondering if that's where this stuff came from.
Some of the conversations on this thread likely spurred that thought.
Similarly, my daughter (I've mentioned she's a vegetarian) takes an Algae Omega. But as a tech recruiter and someone that's worked in the algae industry space, I can tell you that algae is all grown with heavy fertilizer in a closed loop, recycling as much water and fertilizer as possible. Once you establish that loop, though, some of the algae left after extracting oil can be used to enhance the purchased fertilizer levels. But they are adding fertilizer all the time.
When you get down to it, really what is best is minimal pain and suffering. Otherwise, it's just mental gymnastics wondering how far down to push. Anything that gets us closer to a cruelty free society is advancement.
It reminds me of the environmental issues, something I've long been involved with through my consulting business. Nickel mining pollutes the hell out of the environment, but it's necessary in Electric Vehicles. Most like the idea of EVs, but opponents point to nickel mining pollution. Well, a Canadian company just figured out how to produce nickel without polluting. Sometimes, you have to take steps in the right direction without knowing all the answers in advance. Sustainability is the common theme along with cruelty.
Eventually, they'll be able to genetically engineer DNA of milk, perhaps without ever using cows. But we're not there yet. Scientists are already producing lab grown meat. What if you had cows that could live a full life span and never be slaughtered and take great care of them because you don't need to slaughter them if you can grow meat in a vat? I realize the stern stance is not having animals captive for human's use at all, but this (to me) is a much more attractive alternative if it can work in the long term. Less pollution and much less cruelty.
https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/2 -
MikePfirrman wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »My comment on "excrement" was in response to Jellyroll's remark. I referred to "no animal input" may be, had I said something like, "direct animal input", or possibly "no animal tissue or fluid", I might have been more clearly understood. Excrement is, in my view, an indirect input.
Bees, beetles and other small insects which go about their uninhibited in their way of life. Their "life cycle" doing what they do, what they need to do, to replace themselves and keep their species represented in the now decreasing, once long list of life forms on this planet is natural. So if seeds, fruits and the like, are used as food breaking part of the cycle of plant reproduction, some seeds need to go through the digestive tracts of appropriate (to the plant) animals to ensure subsequent germination, That again is Nature. Plants left to their own devices produce enough and more seeds to guarantee, in their natural historic environment, sufficient plants and more to replace themselves. Nature's expectation is some potential will be lost along the way from seed to seed pod or tuber.
As for my dil, she does have dietary intolerances and is an ethical Vegan. The meat was a slice of shop cut cold ham, so it was cold just taken from the fridge to be eaten from cold, the cross contamination risk of debris as suggested cooking juices dropping from it were non-existent. She could have been more mindful of the elderly persons in whose home she was a guest. Picking up another point we are all entitled to find "smells" totally disgusting, how we express it is usually within our personal control.
I've run the idea of this Vegan milk with "Bovine DNA", past several UK vegetarian and Vegan friends and they all came back with the same view of this product, "its not vegan". I would very much doubt it would ever be accepted over here as you all seem to embrace it over there down to the potential desirable cheese!
Were the cows consulted before the DNA was taken, were they able to consent? My understanding of DNA is, it carries the blueprint for life and the processes thereof, expressed in/by chromosomes. So taking/steeling the Bovine DNA without their explicit "consent" of said herd of dairy cattle, their being sentient animals, took/stole the process from them. Just because you can do something does not make it right.
This so called "milk" still has animal origins, (the DNA).
By referring to "you all," you seem to be ignoring the people in this conversation are one ethical vegan who has said she is unsure whether or not she'd consume it and made one flippant comment about missing blue cheese (that's me) and a few non-vegans who are being thoughtful about their participation in animal exploitation and are generally open to considering products of this type. To compare this group to your vegetarian/vegan friends to try to make this a UK vs US vegan standoff is outlandish. If you asked a group of US vegans about this product, I promise you that some of them would find it unacceptable as well (as you could also likely find some UK vegans who might be willing to consider consuming it).
I don't understand the POV that it's okay to farm an animal, sell their milk and flesh, and then make additional profit off their manure and consider the manure vegan, but that it's somehow crossing an exploitation brightline by using their DNA in an attempt to prevent the real and very profound suffering that millions and millions of animals undergo in the name of bringing dairy to human dining tables.
The manure can't be viewed as a single isolated product that is somehow being gathered at no harm to the animals. It's part of the overall profit that farmers make from the animals that they're using in all sorts of ways so you can't handwave it away as not somehow being "animal input." It's not "nature's expectation" that farmers will sell manure from the animals they're keeping in productivity. It's not an "indirect input" anymore than farmers selling things like hooves and connective tissue for gelatin are. It's part of the whole superstructure that keeps animal agriculture profitable.
If you wish to withdraw your statement about "no animal input," I completely understand. I agree that it isn't a useful way to measure veganism.
Yes, this product has "animal origins." So do the vegetables on our plate made with animal based fertilizer, things like manure or bone meal. I'm arguing that a coherent theory of veganism goes beyond the "ew ham is in the vicinity of my plate" argument and instead focuses on considering the impact to the animals and actually ending animal exploitation.
It's ironic you mention bone meal. I wish I didn't know about chicks being ground up and I put some organic fertilizer on a small orange tree this year that I have in the yard. My dogs were going nuts over the smell of this stuff. Then I started remembering how male chicks are ground up in egg production and wondering if that's where this stuff came from.
Some of the conversations on this thread likely spurred that thought.
Similarly, my daughter (I've mentioned she's a vegetarian) takes an Algae Omega. But as a tech recruiter and someone that's worked in the algae industry space, I can tell you that algae is all grown with heavy fertilizer in a closed loop, recycling as much water and fertilizer as possible. Once you establish that loop, though, some of the algae left after extracting oil can be used to enhance the purchased fertilizer levels. But they are adding fertilizer all the time.
When you get down to it, really what is best is minimal pain and suffering. Otherwise, it's just mental gymnastics wondering how far down to push. Anything that gets us closer to a cruelty free society is advancement.
It reminds me of the environmental issues, something I've long been involved with through my consulting business. Nickel mining pollutes the hell out of the environment, but it's necessary in Electric Vehicles. Most like the idea of EVs, but opponents point to nickel mining pollution. Well, a Canadian company just figured out how to produce nickel without polluting. Sometimes, you have to take steps in the right direction without knowing all the answers in advance. Sustainability is the common theme along with cruelty.
Eventually, they'll be able to genetically engineer DNA of milk, perhaps without ever using cows. But we're not there yet. Scientists are already producing lab grown meat. What if you had cows that could live a full life span and never be slaughtered and take great care of them because you don't need to slaughter them if you can grow meat in a vat? I realize the stern stance is not having animals captive for human's use at all, but this (to me) is a much more attractive alternative if it can work in the long term. Less pollution and much less cruelty.
https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/
Even if preference for lab-grown meat became universal, or nearly so, to the point that people reacted to the idea of eating flesh that once was part of a living cow in the way that most people now would react to the idea of eating maggots, I still can't picture farms taking on the care and feeding of animals for their natural lifespans with no return. Even if there's no market for them, farms would most likely, perhaps with regret, be forced to conclude that slaughtering them and throwing the carcasses in a pit would be cheaper than feeding them.1 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »MikePfirrman wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »My comment on "excrement" was in response to Jellyroll's remark. I referred to "no animal input" may be, had I said something like, "direct animal input", or possibly "no animal tissue or fluid", I might have been more clearly understood. Excrement is, in my view, an indirect input.
Bees, beetles and other small insects which go about their uninhibited in their way of life. Their "life cycle" doing what they do, what they need to do, to replace themselves and keep their species represented in the now decreasing, once long list of life forms on this planet is natural. So if seeds, fruits and the like, are used as food breaking part of the cycle of plant reproduction, some seeds need to go through the digestive tracts of appropriate (to the plant) animals to ensure subsequent germination, That again is Nature. Plants left to their own devices produce enough and more seeds to guarantee, in their natural historic environment, sufficient plants and more to replace themselves. Nature's expectation is some potential will be lost along the way from seed to seed pod or tuber.
As for my dil, she does have dietary intolerances and is an ethical Vegan. The meat was a slice of shop cut cold ham, so it was cold just taken from the fridge to be eaten from cold, the cross contamination risk of debris as suggested cooking juices dropping from it were non-existent. She could have been more mindful of the elderly persons in whose home she was a guest. Picking up another point we are all entitled to find "smells" totally disgusting, how we express it is usually within our personal control.
I've run the idea of this Vegan milk with "Bovine DNA", past several UK vegetarian and Vegan friends and they all came back with the same view of this product, "its not vegan". I would very much doubt it would ever be accepted over here as you all seem to embrace it over there down to the potential desirable cheese!
Were the cows consulted before the DNA was taken, were they able to consent? My understanding of DNA is, it carries the blueprint for life and the processes thereof, expressed in/by chromosomes. So taking/steeling the Bovine DNA without their explicit "consent" of said herd of dairy cattle, their being sentient animals, took/stole the process from them. Just because you can do something does not make it right.
This so called "milk" still has animal origins, (the DNA).
By referring to "you all," you seem to be ignoring the people in this conversation are one ethical vegan who has said she is unsure whether or not she'd consume it and made one flippant comment about missing blue cheese (that's me) and a few non-vegans who are being thoughtful about their participation in animal exploitation and are generally open to considering products of this type. To compare this group to your vegetarian/vegan friends to try to make this a UK vs US vegan standoff is outlandish. If you asked a group of US vegans about this product, I promise you that some of them would find it unacceptable as well (as you could also likely find some UK vegans who might be willing to consider consuming it).
I don't understand the POV that it's okay to farm an animal, sell their milk and flesh, and then make additional profit off their manure and consider the manure vegan, but that it's somehow crossing an exploitation brightline by using their DNA in an attempt to prevent the real and very profound suffering that millions and millions of animals undergo in the name of bringing dairy to human dining tables.
The manure can't be viewed as a single isolated product that is somehow being gathered at no harm to the animals. It's part of the overall profit that farmers make from the animals that they're using in all sorts of ways so you can't handwave it away as not somehow being "animal input." It's not "nature's expectation" that farmers will sell manure from the animals they're keeping in productivity. It's not an "indirect input" anymore than farmers selling things like hooves and connective tissue for gelatin are. It's part of the whole superstructure that keeps animal agriculture profitable.
If you wish to withdraw your statement about "no animal input," I completely understand. I agree that it isn't a useful way to measure veganism.
Yes, this product has "animal origins." So do the vegetables on our plate made with animal based fertilizer, things like manure or bone meal. I'm arguing that a coherent theory of veganism goes beyond the "ew ham is in the vicinity of my plate" argument and instead focuses on considering the impact to the animals and actually ending animal exploitation.
It's ironic you mention bone meal. I wish I didn't know about chicks being ground up and I put some organic fertilizer on a small orange tree this year that I have in the yard. My dogs were going nuts over the smell of this stuff. Then I started remembering how male chicks are ground up in egg production and wondering if that's where this stuff came from.
Some of the conversations on this thread likely spurred that thought.
Similarly, my daughter (I've mentioned she's a vegetarian) takes an Algae Omega. But as a tech recruiter and someone that's worked in the algae industry space, I can tell you that algae is all grown with heavy fertilizer in a closed loop, recycling as much water and fertilizer as possible. Once you establish that loop, though, some of the algae left after extracting oil can be used to enhance the purchased fertilizer levels. But they are adding fertilizer all the time.
When you get down to it, really what is best is minimal pain and suffering. Otherwise, it's just mental gymnastics wondering how far down to push. Anything that gets us closer to a cruelty free society is advancement.
It reminds me of the environmental issues, something I've long been involved with through my consulting business. Nickel mining pollutes the hell out of the environment, but it's necessary in Electric Vehicles. Most like the idea of EVs, but opponents point to nickel mining pollution. Well, a Canadian company just figured out how to produce nickel without polluting. Sometimes, you have to take steps in the right direction without knowing all the answers in advance. Sustainability is the common theme along with cruelty.
Eventually, they'll be able to genetically engineer DNA of milk, perhaps without ever using cows. But we're not there yet. Scientists are already producing lab grown meat. What if you had cows that could live a full life span and never be slaughtered and take great care of them because you don't need to slaughter them if you can grow meat in a vat? I realize the stern stance is not having animals captive for human's use at all, but this (to me) is a much more attractive alternative if it can work in the long term. Less pollution and much less cruelty.
https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/
Even if preference for lab-grown meat became universal, or nearly so, to the point that people reacted to the idea of eating flesh that once was part of a living cow in the way that most people now would react to the idea of eating maggots, I still can't picture farms taking on the care and feeding of animals for their natural lifespans with no return. Even if there's no market for them, farms would most likely, perhaps with regret, be forced to conclude that slaughtering them and throwing the carcasses in a pit would be cheaper than feeding them.
Ideally, you would have a situation where there was a staged decline in demand for flesh from a once-living creature (as opposed to simply skipping meat or eating a lab-grown meat), so cow populations would decline along with demand for meat harvested from their bodies.
Given human nature, I think this would be the most reasonable scenario (assuming one direction for the demand for lab-grown meat - it's also easy to imagine situations where other technical/economic/social needs cause us to stop moving in the direction of lab-grown meat). When lab-grown meat goes on the market, you'll have people who are willing to adopt it early and use it to replace some or all of the "regular" meat in their diet. But you'll also have people who just aren't interested or actively hostile to the idea of eating it -- people with an ideological objection to reducing animal exploitation, people who feel lab-grown meat is risky or unclean or just creepy, people who either imagine or conclude that it isn't an acceptable substitute in terms of taste or texture. There will also be people who won't want to pay extra for it or cannot pay extra for it, but can still afford "regular" meat. Let's say that lab-grown meat is good and gets better (in terms of taste/texture) and it becomes clear over a period of years that there are no observable negative consequences of replacing some or all of one's "regular" meat with it . . . you'd expect to see the group of people objecting to it get smaller each year, especially if prices become competitive.
Agriculture is like any other business, they understand demand and try to keep supply tied to that. So if there is less of a demand for "regular" meat, there would be fewer cows. Eventually, the population we'd have to potentially face caring for would be very small.
This is obviously a very optimistic projection of how lab-grown meat could impact the market, there are other ways that it could go.1 -
janejellyroll wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »MikePfirrman wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »My comment on "excrement" was in response to Jellyroll's remark. I referred to "no animal input" may be, had I said something like, "direct animal input", or possibly "no animal tissue or fluid", I might have been more clearly understood. Excrement is, in my view, an indirect input.
Bees, beetles and other small insects which go about their uninhibited in their way of life. Their "life cycle" doing what they do, what they need to do, to replace themselves and keep their species represented in the now decreasing, once long list of life forms on this planet is natural. So if seeds, fruits and the like, are used as food breaking part of the cycle of plant reproduction, some seeds need to go through the digestive tracts of appropriate (to the plant) animals to ensure subsequent germination, That again is Nature. Plants left to their own devices produce enough and more seeds to guarantee, in their natural historic environment, sufficient plants and more to replace themselves. Nature's expectation is some potential will be lost along the way from seed to seed pod or tuber.
As for my dil, she does have dietary intolerances and is an ethical Vegan. The meat was a slice of shop cut cold ham, so it was cold just taken from the fridge to be eaten from cold, the cross contamination risk of debris as suggested cooking juices dropping from it were non-existent. She could have been more mindful of the elderly persons in whose home she was a guest. Picking up another point we are all entitled to find "smells" totally disgusting, how we express it is usually within our personal control.
I've run the idea of this Vegan milk with "Bovine DNA", past several UK vegetarian and Vegan friends and they all came back with the same view of this product, "its not vegan". I would very much doubt it would ever be accepted over here as you all seem to embrace it over there down to the potential desirable cheese!
Were the cows consulted before the DNA was taken, were they able to consent? My understanding of DNA is, it carries the blueprint for life and the processes thereof, expressed in/by chromosomes. So taking/steeling the Bovine DNA without their explicit "consent" of said herd of dairy cattle, their being sentient animals, took/stole the process from them. Just because you can do something does not make it right.
This so called "milk" still has animal origins, (the DNA).
By referring to "you all," you seem to be ignoring the people in this conversation are one ethical vegan who has said she is unsure whether or not she'd consume it and made one flippant comment about missing blue cheese (that's me) and a few non-vegans who are being thoughtful about their participation in animal exploitation and are generally open to considering products of this type. To compare this group to your vegetarian/vegan friends to try to make this a UK vs US vegan standoff is outlandish. If you asked a group of US vegans about this product, I promise you that some of them would find it unacceptable as well (as you could also likely find some UK vegans who might be willing to consider consuming it).
I don't understand the POV that it's okay to farm an animal, sell their milk and flesh, and then make additional profit off their manure and consider the manure vegan, but that it's somehow crossing an exploitation brightline by using their DNA in an attempt to prevent the real and very profound suffering that millions and millions of animals undergo in the name of bringing dairy to human dining tables.
The manure can't be viewed as a single isolated product that is somehow being gathered at no harm to the animals. It's part of the overall profit that farmers make from the animals that they're using in all sorts of ways so you can't handwave it away as not somehow being "animal input." It's not "nature's expectation" that farmers will sell manure from the animals they're keeping in productivity. It's not an "indirect input" anymore than farmers selling things like hooves and connective tissue for gelatin are. It's part of the whole superstructure that keeps animal agriculture profitable.
If you wish to withdraw your statement about "no animal input," I completely understand. I agree that it isn't a useful way to measure veganism.
Yes, this product has "animal origins." So do the vegetables on our plate made with animal based fertilizer, things like manure or bone meal. I'm arguing that a coherent theory of veganism goes beyond the "ew ham is in the vicinity of my plate" argument and instead focuses on considering the impact to the animals and actually ending animal exploitation.
It's ironic you mention bone meal. I wish I didn't know about chicks being ground up and I put some organic fertilizer on a small orange tree this year that I have in the yard. My dogs were going nuts over the smell of this stuff. Then I started remembering how male chicks are ground up in egg production and wondering if that's where this stuff came from.
Some of the conversations on this thread likely spurred that thought.
Similarly, my daughter (I've mentioned she's a vegetarian) takes an Algae Omega. But as a tech recruiter and someone that's worked in the algae industry space, I can tell you that algae is all grown with heavy fertilizer in a closed loop, recycling as much water and fertilizer as possible. Once you establish that loop, though, some of the algae left after extracting oil can be used to enhance the purchased fertilizer levels. But they are adding fertilizer all the time.
When you get down to it, really what is best is minimal pain and suffering. Otherwise, it's just mental gymnastics wondering how far down to push. Anything that gets us closer to a cruelty free society is advancement.
It reminds me of the environmental issues, something I've long been involved with through my consulting business. Nickel mining pollutes the hell out of the environment, but it's necessary in Electric Vehicles. Most like the idea of EVs, but opponents point to nickel mining pollution. Well, a Canadian company just figured out how to produce nickel without polluting. Sometimes, you have to take steps in the right direction without knowing all the answers in advance. Sustainability is the common theme along with cruelty.
Eventually, they'll be able to genetically engineer DNA of milk, perhaps without ever using cows. But we're not there yet. Scientists are already producing lab grown meat. What if you had cows that could live a full life span and never be slaughtered and take great care of them because you don't need to slaughter them if you can grow meat in a vat? I realize the stern stance is not having animals captive for human's use at all, but this (to me) is a much more attractive alternative if it can work in the long term. Less pollution and much less cruelty.
https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/
Even if preference for lab-grown meat became universal, or nearly so, to the point that people reacted to the idea of eating flesh that once was part of a living cow in the way that most people now would react to the idea of eating maggots, I still can't picture farms taking on the care and feeding of animals for their natural lifespans with no return. Even if there's no market for them, farms would most likely, perhaps with regret, be forced to conclude that slaughtering them and throwing the carcasses in a pit would be cheaper than feeding them.
Ideally, you would have a situation where there was a staged decline in demand for flesh from a once-living creature (as opposed to simply skipping meat or eating a lab-grown meat), so cow populations would decline along with demand for meat harvested from their bodies.
Given human nature, I think this would be the most reasonable scenario (assuming one direction for the demand for lab-grown meat - it's also easy to imagine situations where other technical/economic/social needs cause us to stop moving in the direction of lab-grown meat). When lab-grown meat goes on the market, you'll have people who are willing to adopt it early and use it to replace some or all of the "regular" meat in their diet. But you'll also have people who just aren't interested or actively hostile to the idea of eating it -- people with an ideological objection to reducing animal exploitation, people who feel lab-grown meat is risky or unclean or just creepy, people who either imagine or conclude that it isn't an acceptable substitute in terms of taste or texture. There will also be people who won't want to pay extra for it or cannot pay extra for it, but can still afford "regular" meat. Let's say that lab-grown meat is good and gets better (in terms of taste/texture) and it becomes clear over a period of years that there are no observable negative consequences of replacing some or all of one's "regular" meat with it . . . you'd expect to see the group of people objecting to it get smaller each year, especially if prices become competitive.
Agriculture is like any other business, they understand demand and try to keep supply tied to that. So if there is less of a demand for "regular" meat, there would be fewer cows. Eventually, the population we'd have to potentially face caring for would be very small.
This is obviously a very optimistic projection of how lab-grown meat could impact the market, there are other ways that it could go.
I dunno. I think the result is the same, just spread out over time compared to the stark everbody-dies-today scenario it might have seemed like I was describing (which wasn't really what I intended, but as I'm saying I don't think it makes much difference to the number of cows that will have to be killed to get from current however many millions we're talking about today to zero -- I think the area under the curve is the same whether you traverse the curve in a single days or slowly over decades).
I used the term "cows" in my earlier post because that was the term used by the person I was responding to, but as I understand it, most beef consumed by humans comes from steers. Steers are grown-up calves, and calves come from cows. No matter what point on the declining demand curve for beef from once-living animals we are at, there will be a proportional number of cows deemed no longer fit or profitable for breeding given the declining demand, so I still don't see us reaching this situation described in the post I was responding to:cows that could live a full life span and never be slaughtered and take great care of them because you don't need to slaughter them if you can grow meat in a vat
This raises a related point. If the beef-from-once-live-animals producers are going to reduce the supply at the same pace as demand declines, they will have to "retire" breeding cows early (and I think we all know what that will mean in reality), slaughter more female calves along with male calves, and/or stop breeding existing cows.
Even if they didn't slaughter the cows they stopped breeding, would it be cruel/inhumane/unkind/exploitive to prevent cows from breeding and raising offspring, which presumably is a natural and instinctive behavior for most cows?0 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »MikePfirrman wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »My comment on "excrement" was in response to Jellyroll's remark. I referred to "no animal input" may be, had I said something like, "direct animal input", or possibly "no animal tissue or fluid", I might have been more clearly understood. Excrement is, in my view, an indirect input.
Bees, beetles and other small insects which go about their uninhibited in their way of life. Their "life cycle" doing what they do, what they need to do, to replace themselves and keep their species represented in the now decreasing, once long list of life forms on this planet is natural. So if seeds, fruits and the like, are used as food breaking part of the cycle of plant reproduction, some seeds need to go through the digestive tracts of appropriate (to the plant) animals to ensure subsequent germination, That again is Nature. Plants left to their own devices produce enough and more seeds to guarantee, in their natural historic environment, sufficient plants and more to replace themselves. Nature's expectation is some potential will be lost along the way from seed to seed pod or tuber.
As for my dil, she does have dietary intolerances and is an ethical Vegan. The meat was a slice of shop cut cold ham, so it was cold just taken from the fridge to be eaten from cold, the cross contamination risk of debris as suggested cooking juices dropping from it were non-existent. She could have been more mindful of the elderly persons in whose home she was a guest. Picking up another point we are all entitled to find "smells" totally disgusting, how we express it is usually within our personal control.
I've run the idea of this Vegan milk with "Bovine DNA", past several UK vegetarian and Vegan friends and they all came back with the same view of this product, "its not vegan". I would very much doubt it would ever be accepted over here as you all seem to embrace it over there down to the potential desirable cheese!
Were the cows consulted before the DNA was taken, were they able to consent? My understanding of DNA is, it carries the blueprint for life and the processes thereof, expressed in/by chromosomes. So taking/steeling the Bovine DNA without their explicit "consent" of said herd of dairy cattle, their being sentient animals, took/stole the process from them. Just because you can do something does not make it right.
This so called "milk" still has animal origins, (the DNA).
By referring to "you all," you seem to be ignoring the people in this conversation are one ethical vegan who has said she is unsure whether or not she'd consume it and made one flippant comment about missing blue cheese (that's me) and a few non-vegans who are being thoughtful about their participation in animal exploitation and are generally open to considering products of this type. To compare this group to your vegetarian/vegan friends to try to make this a UK vs US vegan standoff is outlandish. If you asked a group of US vegans about this product, I promise you that some of them would find it unacceptable as well (as you could also likely find some UK vegans who might be willing to consider consuming it).
I don't understand the POV that it's okay to farm an animal, sell their milk and flesh, and then make additional profit off their manure and consider the manure vegan, but that it's somehow crossing an exploitation brightline by using their DNA in an attempt to prevent the real and very profound suffering that millions and millions of animals undergo in the name of bringing dairy to human dining tables.
The manure can't be viewed as a single isolated product that is somehow being gathered at no harm to the animals. It's part of the overall profit that farmers make from the animals that they're using in all sorts of ways so you can't handwave it away as not somehow being "animal input." It's not "nature's expectation" that farmers will sell manure from the animals they're keeping in productivity. It's not an "indirect input" anymore than farmers selling things like hooves and connective tissue for gelatin are. It's part of the whole superstructure that keeps animal agriculture profitable.
If you wish to withdraw your statement about "no animal input," I completely understand. I agree that it isn't a useful way to measure veganism.
Yes, this product has "animal origins." So do the vegetables on our plate made with animal based fertilizer, things like manure or bone meal. I'm arguing that a coherent theory of veganism goes beyond the "ew ham is in the vicinity of my plate" argument and instead focuses on considering the impact to the animals and actually ending animal exploitation.
It's ironic you mention bone meal. I wish I didn't know about chicks being ground up and I put some organic fertilizer on a small orange tree this year that I have in the yard. My dogs were going nuts over the smell of this stuff. Then I started remembering how male chicks are ground up in egg production and wondering if that's where this stuff came from.
Some of the conversations on this thread likely spurred that thought.
Similarly, my daughter (I've mentioned she's a vegetarian) takes an Algae Omega. But as a tech recruiter and someone that's worked in the algae industry space, I can tell you that algae is all grown with heavy fertilizer in a closed loop, recycling as much water and fertilizer as possible. Once you establish that loop, though, some of the algae left after extracting oil can be used to enhance the purchased fertilizer levels. But they are adding fertilizer all the time.
When you get down to it, really what is best is minimal pain and suffering. Otherwise, it's just mental gymnastics wondering how far down to push. Anything that gets us closer to a cruelty free society is advancement.
It reminds me of the environmental issues, something I've long been involved with through my consulting business. Nickel mining pollutes the hell out of the environment, but it's necessary in Electric Vehicles. Most like the idea of EVs, but opponents point to nickel mining pollution. Well, a Canadian company just figured out how to produce nickel without polluting. Sometimes, you have to take steps in the right direction without knowing all the answers in advance. Sustainability is the common theme along with cruelty.
Eventually, they'll be able to genetically engineer DNA of milk, perhaps without ever using cows. But we're not there yet. Scientists are already producing lab grown meat. What if you had cows that could live a full life span and never be slaughtered and take great care of them because you don't need to slaughter them if you can grow meat in a vat? I realize the stern stance is not having animals captive for human's use at all, but this (to me) is a much more attractive alternative if it can work in the long term. Less pollution and much less cruelty.
https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/
Even if preference for lab-grown meat became universal, or nearly so, to the point that people reacted to the idea of eating flesh that once was part of a living cow in the way that most people now would react to the idea of eating maggots, I still can't picture farms taking on the care and feeding of animals for their natural lifespans with no return. Even if there's no market for them, farms would most likely, perhaps with regret, be forced to conclude that slaughtering them and throwing the carcasses in a pit would be cheaper than feeding them.
Ideally, you would have a situation where there was a staged decline in demand for flesh from a once-living creature (as opposed to simply skipping meat or eating a lab-grown meat), so cow populations would decline along with demand for meat harvested from their bodies.
Given human nature, I think this would be the most reasonable scenario (assuming one direction for the demand for lab-grown meat - it's also easy to imagine situations where other technical/economic/social needs cause us to stop moving in the direction of lab-grown meat). When lab-grown meat goes on the market, you'll have people who are willing to adopt it early and use it to replace some or all of the "regular" meat in their diet. But you'll also have people who just aren't interested or actively hostile to the idea of eating it -- people with an ideological objection to reducing animal exploitation, people who feel lab-grown meat is risky or unclean or just creepy, people who either imagine or conclude that it isn't an acceptable substitute in terms of taste or texture. There will also be people who won't want to pay extra for it or cannot pay extra for it, but can still afford "regular" meat. Let's say that lab-grown meat is good and gets better (in terms of taste/texture) and it becomes clear over a period of years that there are no observable negative consequences of replacing some or all of one's "regular" meat with it . . . you'd expect to see the group of people objecting to it get smaller each year, especially if prices become competitive.
Agriculture is like any other business, they understand demand and try to keep supply tied to that. So if there is less of a demand for "regular" meat, there would be fewer cows. Eventually, the population we'd have to potentially face caring for would be very small.
This is obviously a very optimistic projection of how lab-grown meat could impact the market, there are other ways that it could go.
I dunno. I think the result is the same, just spread out over time compared to the stark everbody-dies-today scenario it might have seemed like I was describing (which wasn't really what I intended, but as I'm saying I don't think it makes much difference to the number of cows that will have to be killed to get from current however many millions we're talking about today to zero -- I think the area under the curve is the same whether you traverse the curve in a single days or slowly over decades).
I used the term "cows" in my earlier post because that was the term used by the person I was responding to, but as I understand it, most beef consumed by humans comes from steers. Steers are grown-up calves, and calves come from cows. No matter what point on the declining demand curve for beef from once-living animals we are at, there will be a proportional number of cows deemed no longer fit or profitable for breeding given the declining demand, so I still don't see us reaching this situation described in the post I was responding to:cows that could live a full life span and never be slaughtered and take great care of them because you don't need to slaughter them if you can grow meat in a vat
This raises a related point. If the beef-from-once-live-animals producers are going to reduce the supply at the same pace as demand declines, they will have to "retire" breeding cows early (and I think we all know what that will mean in reality), slaughter more female calves along with male calves, and/or stop breeding existing cows.
Even if they didn't slaughter the cows they stopped breeding, would it be cruel/inhumane/unkind/exploitive to prevent cows from breeding and raising offspring, which presumably is a natural and instinctive behavior for most cows?
Well, right now most dairy cows aren't expressing natural mating behaviors anyway. They're being artificially inseminated and -- in many cases -- being deprived of natural interaction with their offspring. They're already being deprived.
I don't think it would be any crueler than the system we've got going and no more cruel than spaying or neutering, say, feral cat populations to prevent animal suffering.0 -
Just a follow up to that Wired article on lab grown meat -- that company went out of business. I was a bit surprised, but not too much so. Turns out that the entire team is now working on a new venture -- what they learned from trying to grow meat was revolutionary in terms of identifying and selecting individual cells for desirable characteristics. Now they are working at growing micronutrients from plant based sources -- identifying what makes certain foods so healthy for you, then isolating those cells and growing them. There's a huge demand in drug therapies (and in nutraceuticals) for that technology. The new company was founded by the CTO of the lab meat company and (I guess) a fairly well known Vegan podcaster.
Found this article interesting as well. Talking about how prevalent fermentation is becoming in plant based meat alternatives.
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/6-recent-developments-in-the-alternative-protein-industry/1 -
MikePfirrman wrote: »Perfect Day, a startup that I've been following out of curiosity more than anything else (and I know a few of the engineers involved), now has Vegan products, including Ice Cream, out in stores.
Basically, this company, through fermentation methods that have existed for years, has grown milk proteins in a lab that are lactose free and animal cruelty free (they just needed some dairy DNA to start). So no veal, no cruelty of dairy farms, but this is supposed to taste identical to real dairy.
They are out in stores already as "Brave Robot" ice cream. Just wondering if vegans on here would get on board with that or still stick with plant based foods. My wife can't do cow dairy, even if it's lactose free, so I'll likely stick to the non-dairy versions.
Have no idea how expensive it is yet.
Well if it has real cow milk DNA it isnt vegan though. I'm not vegan. But. That would not fall into a vegan category. Some cow at some point was milked for that DNA.
I still wouldn't switch... but because casein and I dont agree.
Edit: after reading some of these comments I feel very uneducated... soooo ignore me.1 -
MikePfirrman wrote: »Perfect Day, a startup that I've been following out of curiosity more than anything else (and I know a few of the engineers involved), now has Vegan products, including Ice Cream, out in stores.
Basically, this company, through fermentation methods that have existed for years, has grown milk proteins in a lab that are lactose free and animal cruelty free (they just needed some dairy DNA to start). So no veal, no cruelty of dairy farms, but this is supposed to taste identical to real dairy.
They are out in stores already as "Brave Robot" ice cream. Just wondering if vegans on here would get on board with that or still stick with plant based foods. My wife can't do cow dairy, even if it's lactose free, so I'll likely stick to the non-dairy versions.
Have no idea how expensive it is yet.
Well if it has real cow milk DNA it isnt vegan though. I'm not vegan. But. That would not fall into a vegan category. Some cow at some point was milked for that DNA.
I still wouldn't switch... but because casein and I dont agree.
Edit: after reading some of these comments I feel very uneducated... soooo ignore me.
LOL, you're not. And I knew nothing about being Vegan until my daughter became vegetarian. It's a very contentious and controversial topic for many!0 -
MikePfirrman wrote: »Perfect Day, a startup that I've been following out of curiosity more than anything else (and I know a few of the engineers involved), now has Vegan products, including Ice Cream, out in stores.
Basically, this company, through fermentation methods that have existed for years, has grown milk proteins in a lab that are lactose free and animal cruelty free (they just needed some dairy DNA to start). So no veal, no cruelty of dairy farms, but this is supposed to taste identical to real dairy.
They are out in stores already as "Brave Robot" ice cream. Just wondering if vegans on here would get on board with that or still stick with plant based foods. My wife can't do cow dairy, even if it's lactose free, so I'll likely stick to the non-dairy versions.
Have no idea how expensive it is yet.
Well if it has real cow milk DNA it isnt vegan though. I'm not vegan. But. That would not fall into a vegan category. Some cow at some point was milked for that DNA.
I still wouldn't switch... but because casein and I dont agree.
Edit: after reading some of these comments I feel very uneducated... soooo ignore me.
I think it's more accurate to say that many vegans would consider it not vegan, but there are possible approaches to vegan ethics that COULD consider it vegan.3 -
Looks like the well known ice cream company Graeter's is also coming out with a line using this.
Perfect Day uses fermentation to create microflora-made dairy protein that delivers the same taste and texture of dairy without the environmental, animal welfare, or food safety concerns, according to the company. The result is lactose-free whey and casein dairy proteins made without cows.
The Perfect Indulgence line will launch in six traditional Graeter’s flavors: Black Cherry Chocolate Chip, Cookies & Cream, Oregon Strawberry, Mint Chocolate Chip, Chocolate and Chocolate Chip. The company plans to release additional flavors in the future, including Madagascar Vanilla Bean.
Those with allergies to whey and milk protein still can't have though. I know a lot of people who eat vegan because it is an easy way to avoid whey and milk protein because they are allergic. This trend might make it harder for those who are allergic to find completely milk/dairy free options if more companies trend this way.2 -
Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »Looks like the well known ice cream company Graeter's is also coming out with a line using this.Perfect Day uses fermentation to create microflora-made dairy protein that delivers the same taste and texture of dairy without the environmental, animal welfare, or food safety concerns, according to the company. The result is lactose-free whey and casein dairy proteins made without cows.
The Perfect Indulgence line will launch in six traditional Graeter’s flavors: Black Cherry Chocolate Chip, Cookies & Cream, Oregon Strawberry, Mint Chocolate Chip, Chocolate and Chocolate Chip. The company plans to release additional flavors in the future, including Madagascar Vanilla Bean.
Those with allergies to whey and milk protein still can't have though. I know a lot of people who eat vegan because it is an easy way to avoid whey and milk protein because they are allergic. This trend might make it harder for those who are allergic to find completely milk/dairy free options if more companies trend this way.
Food labeling is going to have to catch up to this. Similarly to how vegans have mistakenly purchased things like "non-dairy creamer" and then figured out it had animal products, there are going to be people buying vegan "dairy" thinking that it isn't allegenic. The difference is that with the latter situation, there are actual health consequences involved. Companies are going to have to figure out a way to make that clear.1 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »Looks like the well known ice cream company Graeter's is also coming out with a line using this.Perfect Day uses fermentation to create microflora-made dairy protein that delivers the same taste and texture of dairy without the environmental, animal welfare, or food safety concerns, according to the company. The result is lactose-free whey and casein dairy proteins made without cows.
The Perfect Indulgence line will launch in six traditional Graeter’s flavors: Black Cherry Chocolate Chip, Cookies & Cream, Oregon Strawberry, Mint Chocolate Chip, Chocolate and Chocolate Chip. The company plans to release additional flavors in the future, including Madagascar Vanilla Bean.
Those with allergies to whey and milk protein still can't have though. I know a lot of people who eat vegan because it is an easy way to avoid whey and milk protein because they are allergic. This trend might make it harder for those who are allergic to find completely milk/dairy free options if more companies trend this way.
Food labeling is going to have to catch up to this. Similarly to how vegans have mistakenly purchased things like "non-dairy creamer" and then figured out it had animal products, there are going to be people buying vegan "dairy" thinking that it isn't allegenic. The difference is that with the latter situation, there are actual health consequences involved. Companies are going to have to figure out a way to make that clear.
Yeah, doesn't surprise me that a small family company from Cincinnati wouldn't know that. I grew up in Cincinnati. Graeter's is as famous there as Cincinnati Chili. Ridiculously good ice cream. When my wife came down with cow dairy allergies, we missed it terribly. But with her allergies, this would not be a safer alternative for us. It's still cow dairy, just lactose free. But, I'm sure it's delicious.0 -
If they are using any dairy products, then it is not vegan. 'Milk' proteins are made up of all 9 amino acids, making it a complete protein. However, this is not exclusive to dairy. Soybeans also have a complete protein that is actually higher quality, and soy milk is delicious as well as very low in fat. Other alternatives to milk are nuts, like almond, cashew and oat milk. Rice milk is also great, but lower in protein than the other choices. This can be easily fixed though. Eat a little tofu with it.
Seems to me like they are trying to reinvent the wheel when there are already plenty of good substitutes for dairy products available.0 -
If they are using any dairy products, then it is not vegan. 'Milk' proteins are made up of all 9 amino acids, making it a complete protein. However, this is not exclusive to dairy. Soybeans also have a complete protein that is actually higher quality, and soy milk is delicious as well as very low in fat. Other alternatives to milk are nuts, like almond, cashew and oat milk. Rice milk is also great, but lower in protein than the other choices. This can be easily fixed though. Eat a little tofu with it.
Seems to me like they are trying to reinvent the wheel when there are already plenty of good substitutes for dairy products available.
"Vegan" is defined by animal exploitation involved. If "dairy" existed without animal exploitation, then it would be vegan.
The point is that there are plenty of good substitutions available for those who are motivated by political, ethical, health, or environmental reasons to avoid dairy, but the substitutions are less acceptable to those who are less motivated due to the gulf between their taste/mouthfeel/performance in recipes compared to the plant-based alternatives. So I don't think you can state that we can just stop with the development of substitutions because we've done all that we need to do. If there is further development that can convince MORE people to use substitutes, that's a worthwhile project (from an ethical POV).4 -
MikePfirrman wrote: »
When my wife came down with cow dairy allergies, we missed it terribly. But with her allergies, this would not be a safer alternative for us. It's still cow dairy, just lactose free. But, I'm sure it's delicious.janejellyroll wrote: »Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »Looks like the well known ice cream company Graeter's is also coming out with a line using this.Perfect Day uses fermentation to create microflora-made dairy protein that delivers the same taste and texture of dairy without the environmental, animal welfare, or food safety concerns, according to the company. The result is lactose-free whey and casein dairy proteins made without cows.
The Perfect Indulgence line will launch in six traditional Graeter’s flavors: Black Cherry Chocolate Chip, Cookies & Cream, Oregon Strawberry, Mint Chocolate Chip, Chocolate and Chocolate Chip. The company plans to release additional flavors in the future, including Madagascar Vanilla Bean.
Those with allergies to whey and milk protein still can't have though. I know a lot of people who eat vegan because it is an easy way to avoid whey and milk protein because they are allergic. This trend might make it harder for those who are allergic to find completely milk/dairy free options if more companies trend this way.
Food labeling is going to have to catch up to this. Similarly to how vegans have mistakenly purchased things like "non-dairy creamer" and then figured out it had animal products, there are going to be people buying vegan "dairy" thinking that it isn't allegenic. The difference is that with the latter situation, there are actual health consequences involved. Companies are going to have to figure out a way to make that clear.
Same here. The only reason our house is dairy-free is because of a casein allergy. :-(
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MikePfirrman wrote: »
When my wife came down with cow dairy allergies, we missed it terribly. But with her allergies, this would not be a safer alternative for us. It's still cow dairy, just lactose free. But, I'm sure it's delicious.janejellyroll wrote: »Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »Looks like the well known ice cream company Graeter's is also coming out with a line using this.Perfect Day uses fermentation to create microflora-made dairy protein that delivers the same taste and texture of dairy without the environmental, animal welfare, or food safety concerns, according to the company. The result is lactose-free whey and casein dairy proteins made without cows.
The Perfect Indulgence line will launch in six traditional Graeter’s flavors: Black Cherry Chocolate Chip, Cookies & Cream, Oregon Strawberry, Mint Chocolate Chip, Chocolate and Chocolate Chip. The company plans to release additional flavors in the future, including Madagascar Vanilla Bean.
Those with allergies to whey and milk protein still can't have though. I know a lot of people who eat vegan because it is an easy way to avoid whey and milk protein because they are allergic. This trend might make it harder for those who are allergic to find completely milk/dairy free options if more companies trend this way.
Food labeling is going to have to catch up to this. Similarly to how vegans have mistakenly purchased things like "non-dairy creamer" and then figured out it had animal products, there are going to be people buying vegan "dairy" thinking that it isn't allegenic. The difference is that with the latter situation, there are actual health consequences involved. Companies are going to have to figure out a way to make that clear.
Same here. The only reason our house is dairy-free is because of a casein allergy. :-(
Luckily, there are better and better substitutions out every day. I can do cow dairy but my wife can't, so I don't. We do very rare sheep/goat cheese. That's it. What I learned is Americans eat way too much dairy. And I feel better without all of it.2 -
Sheep and goat cheese should be type 2 casein where as bovine it type 1, thought there are some herds which are certificated type 2 casein because the original stock lived in isolation from other cattle. There are 4 types of casein and most are reactive to type 1, 2 is more like human milk and 3 and 4 are generally present at much lower numbers in both milks but are from what I have read, are much less reactive. Hope this helps someone.1
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Absolutely I would try it. If they make it in a form that tastes ok in my hot tea I would switch to it. I am pretty sure I am lactose intolerant (haven't had an official diagnosis, but looking at my stomach issues and food log it became pretty apparent) so if it is cruelty-free, and lactose-free I am in!0
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MikePfirrman wrote: »MikePfirrman wrote: »
When my wife came down with cow dairy allergies, we missed it terribly. But with her allergies, this would not be a safer alternative for us. It's still cow dairy, just lactose free. But, I'm sure it's delicious.janejellyroll wrote: »Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »Looks like the well known ice cream company Graeter's is also coming out with a line using this.Perfect Day uses fermentation to create microflora-made dairy protein that delivers the same taste and texture of dairy without the environmental, animal welfare, or food safety concerns, according to the company. The result is lactose-free whey and casein dairy proteins made without cows.
The Perfect Indulgence line will launch in six traditional Graeter’s flavors: Black Cherry Chocolate Chip, Cookies & Cream, Oregon Strawberry, Mint Chocolate Chip, Chocolate and Chocolate Chip. The company plans to release additional flavors in the future, including Madagascar Vanilla Bean.
Those with allergies to whey and milk protein still can't have though. I know a lot of people who eat vegan because it is an easy way to avoid whey and milk protein because they are allergic. This trend might make it harder for those who are allergic to find completely milk/dairy free options if more companies trend this way.
Food labeling is going to have to catch up to this. Similarly to how vegans have mistakenly purchased things like "non-dairy creamer" and then figured out it had animal products, there are going to be people buying vegan "dairy" thinking that it isn't allegenic. The difference is that with the latter situation, there are actual health consequences involved. Companies are going to have to figure out a way to make that clear.
Same here. The only reason our house is dairy-free is because of a casein allergy. :-(
Luckily, there are better and better substitutions out every day. I can do cow dairy but my wife can't, so I don't. We do very rare sheep/goat cheese. That's it. What I learned is Americans eat way too much dairy. And I feel better without all of it.
I should have said "milk free" since we do keep our own stashes of yogurt and mine is of the bovine variety. All other dairy has been taken out of the house.
I have noticed, though, that when we go out to eat with our vegan friends (or did in the before times) say at a pizza place, I will get my pizza with real cheese b/c it is such a treat, but later I will regret it. The problem is not just the cheese but the huge amounts of it that are used. Of course I could remove some of it but that seems silly in the moment. I always end up wishing I had gotten a pizza with violife cheese substitute... which is just as tasty (IMO) and does not make me feel all glugged up at the end of the evening.0
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