March 14, 2023
IT'S ALWAYS A BAD DAY TO BE A MALTHUSIAN:
Moooove over: How single-celled yeasts are doing the work of 1,500-pound cows: Cowless dairy is here, with the potential to shake up the future of animal dairy and plant-based milks (Laura Reiley, March 12, 2023, Washington Post)
The first course was a celery root soup lush with whole milk. The last was a spice cake topped with maple cream cheese frosting, served with a side of ice cream. And then a latte with its fat cap of glossy foam. In all, a delicious lunch. Maybe a little heavy on the dairy.Only this dairy was different. It was not the product of a cow or soybean or nut. The main ingredient of this milk was made by microbes in a lab, turned into tasty and recognizable food, and then served to a hungry reporter.Lab-grown meat is coming. But lab-grown dairy has already arrived.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 14, 2023 5:46 PM