Fonterra investing in Synthetic milk

[C_T_Russell]

Synthetic milk is a huge conflict of interest.
None of that money will go the the farmers.
It would put them out of pocket.
I cant even believe people would be deluded enough to use the stuff.
The way things are going we wont even be able to get real milk at this rate and then next thing will be synthetic meat or lab grown meat.
Kinda sounds like the movie 1984 where they were all eating synthetic food.
George Orwell was correct, thats where this world is heading if we dont put this to a stop.

If you'd bothered to watch the video I posted you would be aware that precision fermentation is nothing new. It has been used to make insulin for decades and also the cultures used to make most cheeses so you've probably already been consuming products containing PF ingredients for years.

Another aspect is that a large proportion of milk is used for drug and industrial manufacturing as well as in highly processed food manufacture so those dairy components are so heavily modified, whether they are from cows or factories is hardly relevant.

How is any of this supposed to help farmers?
Probably using genetic engineered organisms to make the stuff in much the same way as insulin.