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If you're looking to do more[br]to keep your emissions down,
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you should probably start [br]with what you pour in your coffee.
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Yep, I'm talking about milk.
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One researcher found that milk, [br]cheese, and ice cream from cows
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is responsible for about 3.6%[br]of global emissions.
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The almonds in your almond milk,
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take about six times more water to grow
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than the same amount of oats.
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Which is one reason why oat milk[br]is now everywhere.
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Well, those aren't[br]the only milk alternatives.
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There's also one [br]that has an added benefit,
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plus, it has humps.
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ALT MILK
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So now what we're going to do
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is take a little bit of[br]milk out of each tit,
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and we're going [br]to have a look at that milk.
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(Arielle) Okay,[br]I'm going to give this a try.
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I am getting quite-- [br]Oh, there we go.
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All right, I'm milking camel.
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(Lauren) The next two, the next two [br]we got to milk, yeah.
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(Arielle) This is a camel dairy farm
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and it's in Australia.
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When Lauren Brisbane started it [br]six years ago,
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it was the only one in the country.
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It's been difficult
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because Australians [br]aren't naturally adventurous
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particularly in new food types.
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(Arielle) In the 1860s,
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Afghan camel herders were hired
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to help explore[br]the country's desert landscapes
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bringing thousands of camels with them.
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But with the advent of trains and cars,
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camels soon became obsolete.
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So they were released into the wild.
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Fast forward to the early 2000s,
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and Australia was home[br]to more than a million camels,
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which was a problem [br]because those camels
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cause 10 million dollars[br]in environmental damage each year,
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according to the government.
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So officials tried to stop them [br]by killing thousands of camels in 2010.
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Lauren saw this as an opportunity[br]to turn camels into a cash cow.
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There's worldwide need for camel's milk.
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It doesn't cause a lot of the dysfunction[br]or the allergy reaction
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that you get from, you know, dairy,[br]cow's dairy milk.
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So it's easier to digest.
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(Arielle) Research on camel's milk[br]is still very scarce.
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There's only limited evidence[br]to suggest that camel's milk
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might have unique nutritional properties
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and overall, the jury still out.
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At $25 a liter, it's also not cheap.
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Look, I think it's expensive because [br]camels don't produce a lot of milk,
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and the way you operate [br]a dairy is completely different.
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But it's a very high-end healthy product,
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and to produce that properly is expensive.
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(Arielle) Camel's milk has been popular[br]in the Middle East and Africa
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for thousands of year,.
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and Australia is nowhere close [br]to cracking the list of top producers.
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Laura thinks she can help [br]expand the product's reach
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beyond just being a fad, though.
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So, we had a chat[br]with her target audience.
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Would you be willing to try [br]the camel's milk today?
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Yeah, all right. Sure.
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What do you think?
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It actually tastes a lot like [br]goat's milk without the pungent taste.
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- You have a little bit of milk here--[br]- A camel milk mustache.
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Would you pay $25[br]for a liter of camel milk?
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Maybe once and then see how I go.[br](laughter)
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Maybe, okay.
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It's like four times [br]the amount of the regular milk
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and I guess, as a novelty, it's all right,
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(Arielle) Lauren's farm isn't the[br]only one of its kind.
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Around a dozen other camel dairies[br]have popped up in Australia since 2014.
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And the industry is growing.
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According to one report,
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it's projected to grow [br]by 8% globally each year,
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for the next seven years.
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It's a projection[br]that someone like Jeff Flood,
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co-owner of Summer Land Camel Farm,
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is really banking on.
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We're nearly 800 camels now.
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Besides, our operation here
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represents pretty much 60% of[br]the industry in total in volume.
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So it's a huge R&D project here--[br]Well, how do we build the herd?
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We've got to take a feral animal [br]and convince it that it's safe to be here.
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It's okay to give up milk.
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There's a whole training and [br]domestication process in the front.
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- (Jeff) Enjoy.[br]- (Arielle) Okay. Thank you.
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(Jeff) So this room is a super clean room.
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(Arielle) Okay, I noticed[br]some stuff in jars and some--
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(Jeff) Yeah...
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(Arielle) Some Tupperware, [br]what's going on here?
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(Jeff) This is all[br]that cheese prototyping--
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(Arielle) So... was this top secret?
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- (Jeff) Yes. A lot of that is actually--[br]- (Arielle) Really?
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(Jeff) Nobody's done stuff [br]with camel's milk work like we have so,
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for example, has anyone made [br]a parmesan cheese out of camel's milk?.
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Well, we have.
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(Jeff) So this is, this morning's milk.
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(Arielle) That is so white.
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(Jeff) It is so white.
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(Arielle) The color is very--
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It looks completely different.
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(Jeff) Well, here's to our health again.
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(Arielle) Thank you so much.
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Oh, that was really interesting.
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It definitely tastes like milk.
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- It doesn't taste strong like goat's milk.[br]- No.
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Little bit on the salty side?
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(Jeff) It's really clean.
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What's exciting is there's [br]a really clean mouthfeel,
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so it spreads evenly across the mouth.
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The fat molecules, like I said, [br]are really small,
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and you get the full flavor of the milk[br]all the way through.
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What does the future [br]of this industry look like?
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I would hope that in about [br]10 years' time everybody in Australia
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has tasted camel milk,
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whether it's a gelato [br]or cheese or milk,
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or they've used the product [br]that's got camel milk in there,
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maybe the skincare range or something,[br]the nutraceutical product that uses it.
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(Arielle) Scaling camel's milk production[br]isn't easy because of their low,
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and sometimes unpredictable daily yield,
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but Jeff's farm is trying to do just that.
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Lauren's approach [br]to camel's milk production
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is a bit different, though.
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She puts a lot of emphasis on cuddle time,
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which she says helps the camels[br]feel more comfortable,
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and more willing to give up their milk.
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(Lauren) Every afternoon, [br]camel cuddling is part of the job.
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(Arielle) Really? Well, that is quite a burden.
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I know, It is, it's terrible.
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It's horrible, must be very hard for you.
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Yeah, very hard.
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(Lauren) It was really great [br]coming from a perspective
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that we weren't dairy people,
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because we looked at camels as camels.
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And we looked at their needs and--[br](laughter)
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He loves to cuddle!
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(Lauren) Hello. It's okay. This is Rosie.
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And from your perspective, [br]is this doing well?
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Well, we're breaking even, at the moment.
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and when we're just popping over [br]into the profit sector.
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When you start anything,[br]it's always difficult,
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but it's certainly moving along [br]in a nice direction,
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let's put it that way.