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   Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 22:21:19 JST Jules

   More Than Half Of Brits Unaware Cows Must Be Impregnated To Produce Milk, Survey Finds
   https://plantbasednews.org/animals/brits-unaware-cows-impregnated-milk/

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     Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 22:21:16 JST Jules

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     • Albert Cardona

     @albertcardona at a bit of a tangent I hope someday we do end up producing milk in factories like she thought. I do find it weird how much effort goes into producing lab grown meat where you have to get the texture right and get the cells in suspension into a solid lump, rather than already liquid tissues like milk or egg yolk or albumin

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     Albert Cardona (albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 22:21:18 JST Albert Cardona

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     @afewbugs As a kid my sister asked our mom in which factory is milk made, and my mom, daugther of a farmer, took her to see a dairy farm. Came back horrified and didn’t drink milk for weeks.

     Most of us have grown too detached from the land and food production. Working a tiny allotment is my own minimal way to keep my own kids grounded on the realities of food and farming.

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     Albert Cardona (albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 22:21:35 JST Albert Cardona

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     @afewbugs Indeed. Have read enough scifi as a child that the fungal food factories of Trantor’s Mycogen district seemed inevitable, and living now my childhood’s future I am disapointed synthetic foods still fall so short of expectations. I love cheese yet I am appalled at the reality of dairy and meat production. As a biologist I am convinced there aren’t any conceptual barriers to manufacturing nutritionally excellent and pallatable foods, only engineering and cultural ones.