Alt Milk (clip)

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 at 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.