1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you're looking to do more to keep your emissions down, 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you should probably start with what you pour in your coffee. 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Yep, I'm talking about milk. 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 One researcher found that milk, cheese, and ice cream from cows 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 is responsible for about 3.6% of global emissions. 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The almonds in your almond milk, 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 take about six times more water to grow than the same amount of oats. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Which is one reason why oat milk is now everywhere. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Well, those aren't the only milk alternatives. 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There's also one that has an added benefit, 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 plus, it has humps. 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 ALT MILK 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So now what we're going to do 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 is take a little bit of milk out of each tit, 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and we're going to have a look at that milk. 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (Arielle) Okay, I'm going to give this a try. 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I am getting quite-- Oh, there we go. 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 All right, I'm milking camel. 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (Lauren) The next two, the next two we got to milk, yeah. 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (Arielle) This is a camel dairy farm 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and it's in Australia. 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When Lauren Brisbane started it six years ago, 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it was the only one in the country. 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's been difficult 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 because Australians aren't naturally adventurous 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 particularly in new food types. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (Arielle) In the 1860s, 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Afghan camel herders were hired to help explore 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the country's desert landscapes bringing thousands of camels with them. 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But with the advent of trains and cars, 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 camels soon became obsolete. 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So they were released into the wild. 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fast forward to the early 2000s, 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And Australia was home to more than a million camels, 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 which was a problem because those camels 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 cause 10 million dollars in environmental damage each year, 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 according to the government. 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So officials tried to stop them by killing thousands of camels in 2010. 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Lauren saw this as an opportunity to turn camels into a cash cow. 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There's worldwide need for camel milk. 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It doesn't cause a lot of the dysfunction or the allergy reaction 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that you get from, you know, dairy, cow dairy milk. 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So it's easier to digest. 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (Arielle) Research on camel milk is still very scarce. 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There's only limited evidence to suggest that camel milk might have 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 unique nutritional properties 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and overall, the jury still out. 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 At $25 a liter, it's also not cheap. 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Ah, look, I think it's expensive because camels don't produce a lot of milk, 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and the way you operate the dairy is completely different. 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But it's a very high-end healthy product, 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and to produce that properly is expensive. 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (Arielle) Camel milk has been popular in the Middle East and Africa 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 for thousands of years. 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And Australia is nowhere close to cracking the list of top producers. 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Laura thinks she can help expand the product's reach 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 beyond just being a fad, though. 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, we had a chat with her target audience. 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Would you be willing to try the camel milk today? 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Yeah, all right. Sure. 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What do you think? 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It actually tastes a lot like goat's milk without the pungent taste. 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - You have a little bit of milk here-- - A camel milk mustache. 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Would you pay $25 for a liter of camel milk? 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Maybe once and then see how I go. (laughter) 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Maybe, okay. 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's like four times the amount of the regular milk 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and I guess, as a novelty, it's all right, 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (Arielle) Lauren's farm isn't the only one of its kind. 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Around a dozen other camel dairies have popped up in Australia since 2014. 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And the industry is growing. 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 According to one report, 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it's projected to grow by 8% globally each year, 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 for the next seven years. 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's a projection that someone like Jeff Flood, 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 co-owner of Summer Land Camel Farm, 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 is really banking on nearly eight hundred camels. Now, 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 besides our operation here represents pretty much 60% of the industry on in total 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in volume. So it's a huge R&D project here about. Well, how do we build the heard? 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We've got to take a feral animal and convince it that it's 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 safe to be here. 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's okay to give up milks. It was a whole training 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and domestication process in the front. Enjoy. 84 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So this forms a super clean room? 85 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, and there are some some stuff in jars and some yeah, 86 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 some Tupperware. What's going on here? This is all that cheese prototyping. 87 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So this was this top secret. 88 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Yes. A lot of that is actually true. 89 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Nobody's done stuff with camel milk work, where you have. So, 90 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 for example, who is anyone made a Parmesan cheese out of a coma. Well, we have. 91 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So this is, this morning's milk. 92 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That is so white. It is so white color is very 93 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 giving you a huge also looks completely different. 94 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Thank you so much. 95 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And I was really interesting. 96 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It definitely tastes like milk. It doesn't taste strong like goats milk 97 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 little bit on the salty side. 98 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's really clean. 99 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What excited really clean mouth feel so it spreads evenly across the mouth. 100 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The fat molecules. 101 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Like I said, but really small 102 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and you get the full flavor of the milk all the way through. 103 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What is the future of this industry? Look like I would hope that in about 104 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Years time everybody. In Australia, has tasted camel milk, 105 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 whether it's a gelato or cheese or milk, or they've used the product. 106 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's got camel milk in there. 107 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Maybe the skincare range is or something nutraceutical product that uses power 108 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 scaling camel milk production isn't easy 109 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 because of their low and sometimes unpredictable daily yield 110 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but Jeff's Farm is trying to do just that. 111 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Laurens approach to camel, milk production as a bit different though. 112 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 She puts a lot of emphasis on cuddle time, 113 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 which she says helps the camels feel more comfortable, 114 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and more willing to give up their milk. 115 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Every afternoon camel cuddling is part of the job really? 116 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Well, that is quite a burden. It is, it's terrible. Horrible. 117 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Be very hard for you. Yeah, very was really great coming from a perspective that 118 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we weren't Dairy people, because we looked at camels as camels. 119 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And we looked at their needs and 120 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 he loves to cuddle. Hello. 121 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, this is Rosie. 122 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And from your perspective, is this doing well, weiwei breaking, even at the moment, 123 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and when we just popping over into the profit sector, 124 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so when you start anything, it's always difficult, 125 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but it certainly moving along in a nice Direction. Let's put it that way. 126 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Today is all about versatility. We're going to talk milk Alternatives. 127 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's right. 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