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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[br]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 to have a look at that[br]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 [br]were hired to help explore
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the country's desert landscapes [br]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 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 dairy milk.
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So it's easier to digest.
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(Arielle) Research on camel milk[br]is still very scarce.
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There's only limited evidence[br]to suggest that camel milk might have
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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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Ah, 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]the 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 milk has been popular[br]in the Middle East and Africa
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for thousands of years.
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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 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 nearly[br]eight hundred camels. Now,
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besides our operation here represents[br]pretty much 60% of the industry on in total
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in volume. So it's a huge R&D project here[br]about. Well, how do we build the heard?
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We've got to take a feral[br]animal and convince it that it's
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safe to be here.
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It's okay to give up milks.[br]It was a whole training
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and domestication process[br]in the front. Enjoy.
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So this forms a super clean room?
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Okay, and there are some some[br]stuff in jars and some yeah,
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some Tupperware. What's going on here?[br]This is all that cheese prototyping.
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So this was this top secret.
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Yes. A lot of that is actually true.
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Nobody's done stuff with camel[br]milk work, where you have. So,
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for example, who is anyone made a Parmesan[br]cheese out of a coma. Well, we have.
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So this is, this morning's milk.
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That is so white. It is[br]so white color is very
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giving you a huge also[br]looks completely different.
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Thank you so much.
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And I was really interesting.
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It definitely tastes like milk. It[br]doesn't taste strong like goats milk
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little bit on the salty side.
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It's really clean.
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What excited really clean mouth feel[br]so it spreads evenly across the mouth.
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The fat molecules.
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Like I said, but really small
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and you get the full flavor of[br]the milk all the way through.
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What is the future of this industry?[br]Look like I would hope that in about
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Years time everybody. In[br]Australia, has tasted camel milk,
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whether it's a gelato or cheese or[br]milk, or they've used the product.
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That's got camel milk in there.
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Maybe the skincare range is or something[br]nutraceutical product that uses power
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scaling camel milk production isn't easy
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because of their low and sometimes[br]unpredictable daily yield
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but Jeff's Farm is trying to do just that.
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Laurens approach to camel, milk[br]production as 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[br]camels feel more comfortable,
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and more willing to give up their milk.
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Every afternoon camel cuddling[br]is part of the job really?
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Well, that is quite a burden.[br]It is, it's terrible. Horrible.
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Be very hard for you. Yeah, very was[br]really great coming from a perspective that
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we weren't Dairy people, because[br]we looked at camels as camels.
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And we looked at their needs and
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he loves to cuddle. Hello.
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Okay, this is Rosie.
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And from your perspective, is this doing[br]well, weiwei breaking, even at the moment,
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and when we just popping[br]over into the profit sector,
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so when you start anything,[br]it's always difficult,
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but it certainly moving along in a[br]nice Direction. Let's put it that way.
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Today is all about versatility. We're[br]going to talk milk Alternatives.
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That's right. It's not[br]just about Pals ball, baby.