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If you're looking to do more
to keep your emissions down,
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you should probably start
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,
cheese, and ice cream from cows
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is responsible for about 3.6%
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
than the same amount of oats.
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Which is one reason why oat milk
is now everywhere.
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Well, those aren't
the only milk alternatives.
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There's also one
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
milk out of each tit,
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and we're going to have a look at that
milk.
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(Arielle) Okay,
I'm going to give this a try.
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I am getting quite--
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
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
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
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 to help explore
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the country's desert landscapes
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
to more than a million camels,
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which was a problem
because those camels
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cause 10 million dollars
in environmental damage each year,
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according to the government.
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So officials tried to stop them
by killing thousands of camels in 2010.
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Lauren saw this as an opportunity
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
or the allergy reaction
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that you get from, you know, dairy,
cow dairy milk.
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So it's easier to digest.
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(Arielle) Research on camel milk
is still very scarce.
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There's only limited evidence
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
camels don't produce a lot of milk,
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and the way you operate
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
in the Middle East and Africa
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for thousands of years.
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And Australia is nowhere close
to cracking the list of top producers.
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Laura thinks she can help
expand the product's reach
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beyond just being a fad, though.
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So, we had a chat
with her target audience.
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Would you be willing to try
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
goat's milk without the pungent taste.
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- You have a little bit of milk here--
- A camel milk mustache.
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Would you pay $25
for a liter of camel milk?
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Maybe once and then see how I go.
(laughter)
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Maybe, okay.
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It's like four times
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
only one of its kind.
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Around a dozen other camel dairies
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
by 8% globally each year,
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for the next seven years.
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It's a projection
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
eight hundred camels. Now,
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besides our operation here represents
pretty much 60% of the industry on in total
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in volume. So it's a huge R&D project here
about. Well, how do we build the heard?
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We've got to take a feral
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.
It was a whole training
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and domestication process
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
stuff in jars and some yeah,
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some Tupperware. What's going on here?
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
milk work, where you have. So,
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for example, who is anyone made a Parmesan
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
so white color is very
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giving you a huge also
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
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
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
the milk all the way through.
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What is the future of this industry?
Look like I would hope that in about
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Years time everybody. In
Australia, has tasted camel milk,
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whether it's a gelato or cheese or
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
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
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
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
camels feel more comfortable,
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and more willing to give up their milk.
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Every afternoon camel cuddling
is part of the job really?
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Well, that is quite a burden.
It is, it's terrible. Horrible.
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Be very hard for you. Yeah, very was
really great coming from a perspective that
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we weren't Dairy people, because
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
well, weiwei breaking, even at the moment,
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and when we just popping
over into the profit sector,
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so when you start anything,
it's always difficult,
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but it certainly moving along in a
nice Direction. Let's put it that way.
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Today is all about versatility. We're
going to talk milk Alternatives.
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That's right. It's not
just about Pals ball, baby.