Posted on 06/17/2014 10:34:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway
These days you can order your coffee with anything from cow's milk to almond milk, but even in an experimental town like San Francisco, a camel's milk latte has yet to sound like anything but a joke. Southern California-based company Desert Farms is looking to change that. With its tongue-in-cheek slogan, "make every day a hump day," and its packaging emphasizing the health benefits of its product, the company is trying to turn camel's milk into the next big thing in dairy.
Camel's milk isn't anything new to the Bedouins of the Middle East and Northern Africa, of course, who have been drinking the stuff forever -- visitors to Dubai can even try camel milk chocolate and ice cream. But it has yet to catch on with American audiences, despite the fact that it has three times as much Vitamin C and half the fat of cows' milk, thanks to the hardscrabble conditions where camels, desert animals, are usually found.
When the sample arrived at SF Weekly offices, we eyed it warily before taking a sip. The final product was more tart and salty than your average cow's milk -- reminiscent of liquid yogurt -- though it had a sweetness to it, too, and none of the muskiness of goat's milk. Once we got over our initial trepidation, the rich camel milk seemed like an ideal pairing for cereal or a chocolate chip cookie. After all, the milk from one mammal's udder isn't categorically different from another's, and it wasn't so long ago that goat cheese was considered an exotic ingredient in this country.
Desert Farms sources its milk from small farms across the country, many of them Amish, that raise camels on a diet of GMO-free grass and don't add extra hormones or homogenize the milk they collect. The company's milk also comes at a premium because of it: An 16-ounce bottle costs $18. For the milk to truly catch on as an alternative, they're gonna have to figure out how to scale up those camel-milking operations.
Camel milk is the new goji berry / acai / pomegranate / superfood.
I thought this was going to be commentary on Obama’s foreign policy.
They need to optimize operations and harvest the camel urine also. That should sell for another $18 bucks.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drinking+camel+urine
no, I will never drink camel milk - period, end of story. Even if it was free. I do not drink cow milk. I just have never been a milk drinker.
I seldom drink cow's milk, so I don't think I'll get on board with drinking the milk of Achmed's girlfriend.
Wait, I thought "Hump Day" and camels were racist now.
I can see it now. Starbucks will now ask if I want one hump or two with my coffee...
Some ‘oppressed’ people with long beards drink other camel fluids. We must all be ‘equal’, so the next step is for the government to force us all to do like the ‘oppressed’ people.
Spinach has tons of calcium and tomatoes helps the body absorb it.
$10 please.
Camels Confirmed As Source of MERS Virus
By Maggie Fox
A new study shows camels are almost certainly the source of MERS.
Camels are almost certainly the source of the MERS virus that is on the upswing again across the Middle East, researchers reported on Tuesday.
A countrywide survey of camels shows many, if not most, are infected with a strain genetically almost identical to the strain that’s infecting people, a team at Columbia University, King Saud University, and the EcoHealth Alliance reported.
The World Health Organization has expressed alarm about the increase in reports of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). WHO reports more than 250 confirmed cases and 93 deaths since the virus was identified in 2012. But Saudi Arabia reported more cases over the weekend, taking the reported total to more than 300, with more than 100 deaths.
What does that have to do with this?
By the way, spinach does have calcium, but it also has oxalates, which blocks absorption of calcium.
haha! Me too!
Which is why I added tomatoes.
If you don’t want to drink camel’s milk, eat spinach.
I am actually really enjoying Almond Milk myself. Nice and creamy, pretty good for you, no nasty taste. Great in cereal and smoothies!
NOT.
Camels are not kosher therefore their milk is not kosher. I will not be drinking camel milk.
By the way, spinach does have calcium, but it also has oxalates, which blocks absorption of calcium.
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Don’t confuse the little dears.....
Bodily fluids from camels can carry nasty diseases.
Ask CDC.
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