If you're looking to do more to keep your emissions down,
you should probably start with what you pour in your coffee.
Yep, I'm talking about milk.
One researcher found that milk, cheese, and ice cream from cows
is responsible for about 3.6% of global emissions.
The almonds in your almond milk,
take about six times more water to grow than the same amount of oats.
Which is one reason why oat milk is now everywhere.
Well, those aren't the only milk alternatives.
There's also one that has an added benefit,
plus, it has humps.
ALT MILK
So now what we're going to do
is take a little bit of milk out of each tit,
and we're going to have a look at that milk.
(Arielle) Okay, I'm going to give this a try.
I am getting quite-- Oh, there we go.
All right, I'm milking camel.
(Lauren) The next two, the next two we got to milk, yeah.
(Arielle) This is a camel dairy farm
and it's in Australia.
When Lauren Brisbane started it six years ago,
it was the only one in the country.
It's been difficult
because Australians aren't naturally adventurous particularly in new food types.
In the 1860s Afghan camel, herders were hired to help explore the
Desert Landscapes bringing thousands of camels with them.
But with the Advent of trains and cars, camels soon became obsolete.
So they were released into the wild fast forward to the early 2000s
in Australia, was home to more than a million camels,
which was a problem because those camels cause 10 million dollars
in environmental damage each year according to the government.
So officials tried to stop them by killing thousands of camels in 2010.
Lauren saw this as an opportunity to turn camels into a cash cow.
This worldwide need for camel milk.
It doesn't cause a lot of the dysfunction, or the allergy reaction that you
get from, you know, dairy, cow dairy milk.
So it's easier to digest research on camel. Milk is still very scarce.
There's only limited evidence to suggest that camel milk might have unique,
nutritional properties and overall, the jury still out at $25. L.
It's also not cheap Luke. I think it's
And C because camels don't produce a lot of milk and the way
that you operated areas completely different,
but it's a very high-end healthy product and to produce that properly is expensive.
Camel milk has been popular in the Middle East and Africa for thousands of years
and Australia is nowhere. Close to cracking the list of top producers.
Laura thinks she can help expand the products reach Beyond, just being a fat though.
So, we had a chat with her target audience.
Would you be willing to try the camel milk today? Yeah. All right. Sure.
What do you think it actually tastes a lot like goats milk without
the pungent taste. Yeah,
but you have a little bit of milk are if they tell you the stash.
Would you pay $25 for a liter of camel-milk? Maybe once and then see how I go,
maybe? Okay, that's like four times,
the amount of get almond milk and I guess as a novelty, it's all right,
Laurens Farm isn't the only one of its kind
around a dozen other camel. Dairies have popped up in Australia since 2014.
And the industry is growing according to one report
its projected to grow by 8% globally each year, for the next seven years.
It's a projection that someone like Jeff flood co-owner of Summerland camel, farm
is really banking on nearly eight hundred camels. Now,
besides our operation here represents pretty much 60% of the industry on in total
in volume. So it's a huge R&D project here about. Well, how do we build the heard?
We've got to take a feral animal and convince it that it's
safe to be here.
It's okay to give up milks. It was a whole training
and domestication process in the front. Enjoy.
So this forms a super clean room?
Okay, and there are some some stuff in jars and some yeah,
some Tupperware. What's going on here? This is all that cheese prototyping.
So this was this top secret.
Yes. A lot of that is actually true.
Nobody's done stuff with camel milk work, where you have. So,
for example, who is anyone made a Parmesan cheese out of a coma. Well, we have.
So this is, this morning's milk.
That is so white. It is so white color is very
giving you a huge also looks completely different.
Thank you so much.
And I was really interesting.
It definitely tastes like milk. It doesn't taste strong like goats milk
little bit on the salty side.
It's really clean.
What excited really clean mouth feel so it spreads evenly across the mouth.
The fat molecules.
Like I said, but really small
and you get the full flavor of the milk all the way through.
What is the future of this industry? Look like I would hope that in about
Years time everybody. In Australia, has tasted camel milk,
whether it's a gelato or cheese or milk, or they've used the product.
That's got camel milk in there.
Maybe the skincare range is or something nutraceutical product that uses power
scaling camel milk production isn't easy
because of their low and sometimes unpredictable daily yield
but Jeff's Farm is trying to do just that.
Laurens approach to camel, milk production as a bit different though.
She puts a lot of emphasis on cuddle time,
which she says helps the camels feel more comfortable,
and more willing to give up their milk.
Every afternoon camel cuddling is part of the job really?
Well, that is quite a burden. It is, it's terrible. Horrible.
Be very hard for you. Yeah, very was really great coming from a perspective that
we weren't Dairy people, because we looked at camels as camels.
And we looked at their needs and
he loves to cuddle. Hello.
Okay, this is Rosie.
And from your perspective, is this doing well, weiwei breaking, even at the moment,
and when we just popping over into the profit sector,
so when you start anything, it's always difficult,
but it certainly moving along in a nice Direction. Let's put it that way.
Today is all about versatility. We're going to talk milk Alternatives.
That's right. It's not just about Pals ball, baby.