Are You Drinking Genetically Modified Synthetic Milk?

No antibiotics, no hormones. Just dairy. A new completely lactose-free dairy. Dairy without the cows? How does that work?

The fake milk, sold by Bored Cow, uses a wannabe whey protein  โ€“   โ€œmicrofloraโ€ called โ€œProFermโ€ made by their partner Perfect Day, โ€œa consumer biology company on a mission to create a kinder, greener tomorrow by developing new ways to make the foods you love today โ€” starting in the dairy aisle.โ€

They claim their product is a new kind of โ€œanimal-freeโ€ milk alternative โ€œmade with real milk protein from fermentation.โ€

Health Research Institute (HRI), a nonprofit independent lab based in Fairfield, Iowa examined multiple samples of Bored Cowโ€™s โ€œoriginalโ€ flavor milk using mass spectrometry to test the claim that the synthetic protein it contained was the same as real milk protein.

HRI compared these results to samples of natural milk from grass-fed cows.

Their testing revealed 92 unknown molecules โ€” and a fungicide โ€” in โ€œsyntheticโ€  milk protein used by more than a dozen food brands sold in common grocery chains. 

The ingredients listed for Bored Cowโ€™s โ€œoriginalโ€ flavor are:

This is a stew made with sorcery and mostly crap, starting with the sunflower oil which is an inflammatory seed oil that may be genetically modified as well. Meanwhile, the label does not specify whether the whey protein was produced through the genetic engineering of yeast.

Also, the main input for fermentation is sugar โ€” and theyโ€™re using high fructose corn syrup, which is also a GMO product. Itโ€™s all gross and phony.

Aside from the host of unknown compounds, synthetic milk lacked many important micronutrients found in natural milk such as an omega-3 fatty acid, vitamin E, and some B vitamins.

Additionally, forms of carnitine that are โ€œreally important for energy metabolismโ€ were either missing or only present in trace amounts in the synbio product.

โ€œThere were 69 important nutrients present in natural milk, most of which were completely absent in synbio milk. A few were present in small or trace amounts,โ€ according to HRIโ€™s Chief Scientist and CEO John Fagan, Ph.D. Fagan โ€” a molecular biologist and former cancer researcher at the National Institutes of Health โ€” has been a worldwide pioneer in testing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Additionally, only eight compounds were identifiable. The rest were โ€œuncharacterizedโ€ by scientific literature.

โ€œThe 92 unknown molecules we found have never been studied by scientists. So we donโ€™t know whether theyโ€™re safe or dangerous, whether they are nutrients or toxins,โ€ added Fagan.

Fagan found it concerning that the Bored Cow samples also contained an agricultural fungicide called Benthiavalicarb-isopropyl.

โ€œI think the reason this fungicide is present is because they added it to the fermentation process to inhibit the growth of fungi that could contaminate the production system,โ€ he said, โ€œSo the things that we see here are not really good for us, let me put it that way.โ€

HCIโ€™s official report has not been published yet.

But suffice to say, these results contradict Perfect Dayโ€™s claim that its product โ€” used by Bored Cow โ€” is โ€œidentical to what cows make.โ€

Claiming the proteins are โ€œmolecularly identical to those produced by cowsโ€ is a lie. 

Synthetic milk has never before been consumed by humans and has not undergone safety testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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This slogan is no longer applicable.

Perfect Day claims ProFerm does not contain GMOs. The industry calls it โ€˜precision fermentationโ€™ rather than โ€˜genetic engineering.โ€™  Unlike plant-based alternatives like almond milk or soy milk, this stuff supposedly โ€œtastes and performs the same way as real milk when used as an ingredient.โ€

Trix is for kids.

Perfect Dayโ€™s website doesnโ€™t even use the word โ€œGMOsโ€ to explain its production process, instead, they describe โ€œhow [they] teach microflora to create sustainable protein.โ€

Some call this DoubleSpeak.

โ€˜Microfloraโ€™ is a nice term for GMO yeast.

โ€œSynbioโ€ โ€” short for โ€œsynthetic biologyโ€ โ€” is a method that uses genetic engineering to modify microorganisms like yeast, algae, or bacteria to produce novel products.

Looks like they are avoiding the negative connotations of Frankenstein faux food.

โ€œThe biotechnology industry is marketing this method as โ€˜precision fermentationโ€™ because it exploits a natural process โ€ฆ but itโ€™s actually a form of genetic engineering,โ€ states the Non-GMO Project.

Companies may claim that the GMO DNA is removed during the processing of the fermented proteins, but it is highly unlikely that they could remove all of the GMO DNA, say experts.

Current federal law does not require products that contain ProFerm to be labeled as bioengineered or as containing GMOs. The Non-GMO Project states that Synbio products go โ€œunlabeled and unregulated in the marketplace.โ€

The FDA does not carry out, commission, or require mandatory safety testing of GMOs that are entering the human food supply.

Certain GMOs are regulated by other government agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  or the U.S. Department of Agricultureโ€™s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), based on potential environmental impacts.

The FDA only looks at voluntary pre-market research that is designed and conducted by the companies making GMO products.

On March 25, 2020, the FDA sent Perfect Day a โ€œno-questionsโ€ letter that classified ProFerm as โ€œGenerally Recognized as Safe (GRAS).โ€

Given that Perfect Dayโ€™s fermentation process does use GMOs, it is unclear how the FDA concluded the product could be โ€œgenerally regarded as safe.โ€ 

But hey when it comes to Public Hellth precautions donโ€™t matter.

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    Tom

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    The FDA, like the CDC, is in the murder business as they seek to justify their existence in big pharmaโ€™s cult of death by drugs.

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    aaron

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    Garbage in โ€ฆโ€ฆ garbage out

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