did not know such a thing existed… anyways here is someones report/opinion of said product…
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Bored Cow’s “synthetic” milk, made with Perfect Day’s ProFerm, contains 92 unidentified molecules and a fungicide.
Perfect Day claims ProFerm is “identical” to cow’s milk, but testing reveals significant nutritional discrepancies.
The Organic Consumers Association and GMO/Toxin Free USA have filed a lawsuit against Perfect Day for false and misleading marketing.
The FDA’s “GRAS” process is under scrutiny for allowing untested synthetic products into the market.
In an era where food technology is rapidly advancing, the line between natural and synthetic is becoming increasingly blurred. The recent controversy surrounding Bored Cow’s “synthetic” milk, made with Perfect Day’s ProFerm, has raised serious concerns about the safety, nutritional value, and ethical implications of these new products. The Health Research Institute’s (HRI) findings, which revealed 92 unidentified molecules and a fungicide in Bored Cow’s milk, have sparked a legal battle and a broader debate about the regulatory framework governing food additives.
The rise of synthetic milk and the Perfect Day controversy
Perfect Day, a biotech company, has been at the forefront of developing synthetic milk proteins using genetically modified microflora. The company claims that its product, ProFerm, is “identical” to cow’s milk and offers a more sustainable alternative. However, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and GMO/Toxin Free USA have filed a lawsuit against Perfect Day, alleging that the company’s marketing is false and misleading.
According to the lawsuit, ProFerm is not identical to cow’s milk. HRI’s testing revealed that ProFerm is only 13.4% cow’s whey protein, with the remaining 86.6% consisting of fungal proteins. These fungal proteins and compounds are not found in cow’s milk and have never been part of the human diet. John Fagan, Ph.D., HRI’s chief scientist and CEO, emphasized the nutritional deficiencies in synthetic milk:
69 important nutrients present in natural milk were either absent or present in trace amounts in ProFerm.
Vitamins B2, B5, and E, as well as omega-3 fatty acids, were either missing or present in negligible amounts.
Carnitine, essential for energy metabolism, was either absent or present in trace amounts.
Fagan’s findings highlight the stark differences between synthetic and natural milk, challenging Perfect Day’s claims of nutritional equivalence. The presence of a fungicide, Benthiavalicarb-isopropyl, in Bored Cow’s milk further raises concerns about the safety of these products.
My first question is: What problem is “Bored Cow” trying to solve? The U.S. dairy farmers already produce more milk than they can sell, hence the federal price supports. So, unless their goal is to be able to ensure a constant supply of milk for a Mars colony, what’s the point?
The only “problem” this product might “solve” is to satisfy a tiny sliver of the population crying out for more ways to virtue signal their moral, social, and ethical superiority over the rest of us. Well, that and the money. Develop a method to produce synthetic milk > convince the public that their product is as good or better than natural milk > sell it in stores for 150% (or more) of the price for natural milk > make the shareholders smile all the way to the bank!
There is a large market for lactose free milk. I am lactose intolerant. Happened a few years ago and it is miserable. I love cheese and ice cream. Goodbye mac & cheese or toasted cheese sandwiches. I have the enzyme pills but it is not the same. At first I could tolerate cheese which is low in lactose but even that stopped. Now I have to take a pill if I put butter on my toast. Options are plant based substitutes or lactose free milk. My preference is powdered lactose free whole milk for cooking. At 3 cups a week, I don’t use enough to buy 1/2 gallons out of the dairy case for 2X the price of whole milk. I have used soy and oat which are not synthetics but not milk either. They do work for oatmeal but also not cheap. Walmart is the only store in town that carries lactose free yogurt.
The dairy industry really needs to step up their game for lactose intolerant people.
Fake meat, fake milk….take a hard look at baby formula and then ask yourself why the rise in childhood problems like autism and why so many other problems. Pesticides, preservatives, and a myriad of other unknown chemicals, and the left wonders why RFK is working so hard to combat this insanity. You can’t watch a single show on TV without the major sponsors being Pharma pushing another drug, when the real issue is we no longer eat healthy. My grandparents and parents all grew up on farms, and they seemed to do much better than the general population. Maybe we should just give it a try, we might just be surprised.
Ya’ll can have it. I get mine from the local dairy right down the road. It’s only pasteurized, and you have to shake it to get the cream mixed back in. If it were up to me, I would get it fresh right straight from the cow. That was the best milk I ever drank. Warm, right out of the udder. People don’t know what they are missing.
Lactose free and fat free are one thing, however, I’m not going this far!
I’ll need someone qualified to do some gain of function testing!
We are close. Too close. Soon there will be a robot in every home
If a product is good for three months, I have to ask," How good is it for you?"
As a chef, I look at products that are good for you and have the desired Vitamins, protein, and all the good fats that our body needs. They, (Gubberment,) says that butter is not good for you so use Margerine, the product designed as a plastic. Butteris good food. Then there are other fats good for you, Tallo, Smalts, and Lard. But just like water or fire a little bit is a nice thing but a flood or a forest fire is not. Just do not over do these things or in fact anything. Manage your sugars, starch,
When it comes to milk, some people are lactose tolerant and are not. Being that they cannot drink or eat milk products they need to find alternate methods of getting their vitamin D, Calcium, and other vitamins.
The saying of you are what you eat is true. Just think about what farmers feed their cattle, or what they feed the pigs or chickens, you are the same.
The purpose of this is to reduce or eliminate the imaginary carbon footprint of the traditional dairy farm.
But no, like fake meat, I won’t be consuming fake milk. I will consume an occasional can of Spam, but that is as close as I will get to a synthetic protein source.
And once again ‘THERE IT IS!’ (adjusting my Tin Foil Hat for a better fit and a clearing mental sight picture to the planet Zurcon) I see this as was said above by some the Elites attempts to not only Force-Feed (pun intended) and bombard our bodies with Harmful chemicals our bodies and minds will not be able to handle and absorb but to weaken us and make us more susceptible to other foreign agents they plan to release over our Country for depopulation purposes.
Fake Meat (did you ever really LOOK at that stuff?) It’s disgusting, Fake Cheese (OK, lets just shorten these items like Todd said ‘Dairy products’) The emphasis on ‘Plant based’ products! THIS IS NOT NATURAL by any means. (Even though it’s hailed using the term Plant based)
This 'Synthetic Milk sounds like a ‘Matrix’ movie product—remember when the kid said to Neo 'This tastes like ‘Tasty O’s!’ (although he never actually experienced Tasty O’s in his lifetime because the Gubment had already destroyed/Replaced any real semblance of an actual product.
If you think I’m off the mark here and lost in the Conspiracy Theory world think on this:
You take away the Chickens and Cows (Then whittle down the rest of Nature : Turkey’s Deer, etc.
OUTLAW HUNTING: You won’t have any Guns anyway, prohibit Cross and Compound Bows, Knives and all Sharps (we will be back in the stone age throwing Rocks at our enemies while they will have Rifles and Tanks—still think I’m a CT nut?
(still think THEY won’t be eating REAL Meat? drinking Real Milk? They will be dining on a plate of Grasshoppers? Hardly!
I feel for the folk’s who are Lactose Intolerant like Joseph202 or other Aliments and diseases that seem to be cropping up way more than they had in the past. The attempts to introduce these ‘NATURAL/HEALTHY/ ORGANIC’ crap isn’t always in our best interest. But like everything else this Shadow.gov BROKE it will take time to fix it all.
Faith over FEAR!
EDIT! I am NOT knocking Natural-Organic Healthy products–what I am concerned with is the false Narratives of these FAKE products introduces as those Healthy alternatives. FAKE Lab made AIN’T ORGANIC!
Yuk, will just stick with oat milk if i need make something that requires something like milk, which is very rare, lactose intolerant and so i generally just dont eat or drink anything that needs milk.
Funny, I LOVE oat milk! I just wish they would NOT call it “milk”. And that is my problem with all these products. None of them are what they call them. But like oat milk some of them would probably do better with the general public if they were correctly identified/named as “something else”.
Now this manufactured fake milk is not even a natural product. I’m sure some vegan will find it useful in their diet. But again falls into my “Why is it called milk?” principled predisposition to hating the concept/product.
