This is a disaster. Every mink should have a right to farm the land. We can’t deprive them of agriculture!
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Though, I think most people be horrified to know what goes on in dairy farming. Like the separation child and mother after just days to hours, killing of cows once their milk production drops, etc. and that’s setting aside all the emissions
I think in the future, it will be seen in a similar light to how people see fur today
Maybe, lab grown milk is being developed as we speak.
Depending on what you mean by that, it’s kind of already here. You can already buy non-animal whey protein milks in stores today. As well as the more traditional oat milk, soy milk, almond milk, etc.
Oh I didn’t know non-animal whey was already being made. Though animal milk is more complex than just whey it is still really cool technology.
Precision fermentation is able to make an increasingly larger number of traditionally animal only proteins, enzymes, etc. There is also non-animal casein coming down the pipeline which will help make animal-free cheeses really good since that’s what gives dairy cheese a lot of it’s unusual properties
Already available now is also stuff like non-animal heme iron and non-animal egg white proteins
I also want to add that ironically the dairy industry was one of the earlier pioneer for precision fermentation aside from it’s longer use for making various vitamins. Most tennet used in dairy cheese today (~95%) comes from precision fermentation (the other ~5% still comes from the stomach of killed calves) because the costs of animal rennet started to get super high in the 1990s
