Cockroach milk

[Anakin McFly]

http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists- ... 933396816=

[CashRules]

https://www.whitepowermilk.com/

[Anakin McFly]

...ok, that's weirder than cockroach milk.

[Monk]

I mean, if it's safe and tastes fine, I'd be cool with it (well, if it's lactose free....)

[Eva Yojimbo]

Actually sounds pretty interesting. Finding more sustainable, environmental/animal friendly sources of protein is a good thing. I've even thought of buying some products made with cricket protein.

[Anakin McFly]

I prefer what these people are doing: http://www.perfectdayfoods.com/ - it's actual cow's milk, but produced in a lab without the cows. Other startups have been working on culturing leather and other animal products, so it's a fascinating field that will hopefully one day help to meet demand and possibly perfectly replace products from actual animals. They're a lot more resource-efficient, no animals get harmed, and the final products could be of higher quality since they can control everything at the cellular level.

[Derived Absurdity]

do you just love torturing me with this stuff

[Anakin McFly]

yes

[Monk]

I prefer what these people are doing: http://www.perfectdayfoods.com/ - it's actual cow's milk, but produced in a lab without the cows. Other startups have been working on culturing leather and other animal products, so it's a fascinating field that will hopefully one day help to meet demand and possibly perfectly replace products from actual animals. They're a lot more resource-efficient, no animals get harmed, and the final products could be of higher quality since they can control everything at the cellular level.

Disregarding the fact that predicting the future is usually a fool's errand, I expect that this will likely be the future of things, along with lab-grown meats.

[Anakin McFly]

tbh my one reservation about lab-grown meats is that it's almost inevitable that some lab, somewhere, is going to start producing human meat and that gives me a lot of existential horror at how we are all food, everybody is potential food, everything alive on this planet is food

[Derived Absurdity]

Reality gives me existential horror every single day, so I don't have any worries there.