While telling us to buy and eat local, organically grown simple foods, not highly processed foods comes this: Alpine Bio harvests first crop of soybeans containing casein protein
Alpine Bio—a molecular farming startup engineering plants to produce animal proteins in what it claims is a more sustainable and more efficient manner—has harvested its first large-scale crop of soybeans containing casein proteins in Nebraska.
Sounds simple and organic and natural:
“We’re growing an allergen [milk protein] in soybeans, so building a closed loop system that can scale in a safe manner has been just as important as figuring out the science, and because we are the first company to do this, we also have the responsibility to do it the right way.
“We have developed a system using industrial scale equipment for planting and harvesting that tells us exactly where our material is so that everything is tracked and traceable using GPS trackers and we have the right controls and training for everybody touching our material. We’ve worked closely with soybean industry groups and formed a closed loop system working group with other molecular farming companies to set standards for how we bring these technologies to market safely.”
She adds: “We’re also testing geofencing technology so that trucks cannot release our seeds unless they are within specified coordinates that we program into the GPS. We’re also testing visual markers that can make our seed visibly distinct from other seeds.”
Or we could raise dairy cattle on grasslands and do what humans have done forever…
This an example of the inconsistent, contradictory, and incoherent conflicting messages on our food – eat simple, non-processed, organic, locally sourced food – except it would be better if it is molecular engineered, highly processed, with inputs shipped in from all over, and used to create fake dairy products. This makes my brain hurt a bit.
