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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.
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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
the industry in total in volume.
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So it's a huge R&D project here--
Well, how do we build the herd?
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We've got to take a feral animal
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
domestication process in the front.
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- (Jeff) Enjoy.
- (Arielle) Okay. Thank you.
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(Jeff) So this room is a super clean room.
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(Arielle) Okay, I notice some stuff in jars
and some--
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(Jeff) Yeah...
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(Arielle) Some Tupperware,
what's going on here?
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(Jeff) This is all
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--
- (Arielle) Really?
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(Jeff) Nobody's done stuff
with camel milk work like we have so,
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for example, has anyone made
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.
- 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
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,
are really small,
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and you get the full flavor of the milk
all the way through.
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What does the future
of this industry look like?
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I would hope that in about
10 years' time everybody in Australia
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has tasted camel milk,
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whether it's a gelato
or cheese or milk,
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or they've used the product
that's got camel milk in there,
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maybe the skincare range or something,
the nutraceutical product that uses it.
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(Arielle) Scaling camel's milk production
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
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
feel more comfortable,
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and more willing to give up their milk.
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(Lauren) Every afternoon,
camel cuddling is part of the job.
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(Arielle) Really? Well, that is quite a burden.
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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
coming from a perspective
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that we weren't dairy people,
because we looked at camels as camels.
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And we looked at their needs and--
(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,
is this doing well?
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Well, we're 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.