2024: The Year of Genetically Modified Synthetic Milk

It’s not milk, but they claim that it is “identical to what cows make.” The claim of “substantially equivalent” is made for other GMO products as well, but it is all marketing propaganda designed to deceive the FDA and consumers.

Bored Cow’s fake milk contains “ProFerm,” a “microflora” that imitates whey protein. This product was developed by their partner Perfect Day, “a consumer biology company with the goal of creating new ways to produce the foods you love today, beginning in the dairy aisle.”

Using mass spectrometry, the Health Research Institute (HRI), a nonprofit independent laboratory headquartered in Fairfield, Iowa, analyzed multiple samples of Bored Cow’s “original” flavor milk to verify the claim that the synthetic protein it contained was identical to natural milk protein. These outcomes were compared to samples of natural milk from grass-fed cows by HRI.

A fungicide and 92 unidentified molecules were among the materials detected in “synthetic” milk protein utilized by over a dozen food brands distributed by major supermarket chains, according to their testing.

The ingredients listed for Bored Cow’s “original” flavor are:

“Water, animal-free whey protein (from fermentation), sunflower oil, sugar, less than 1% of vitamin A, vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin), vitamin D2, riboflavin, citrus fiber, salt, dipotassium phosphate, acacia, gellan gum, mixed tocopherols (antioxidant), calcium potassium phosphate citrate, natural flavor.”

This mélange is questionably made, starting with the sunflower oil, a typically genetically modified seed oil known for its inflammatory properties. It is not specified on the label whether the whey protein was generated via yeast genetic engineering. Additionally, sugar is the primary input for fermentation, and they are utilizing high fructose corn syrup, a GMO product as well. Everything about this “milk” is awful and artificial.

In addition to a multitude of unidentified compounds, synthetic milk was deficient in several essential micronutrients that are present in natural milk, including vitamin E, omega-3 fatty acids, and certain B vitamins. Furthermore, the synbio product lacked or contained only minute quantities of carnitine forms that are “equivalent to essential components for energy metabolism.”

“There 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,” according to HRI’s Chief Scientist and CEO John Fagan, Ph.D. Fagan — a molecular biologist and former cancer researcher at the National Institutes of Health — has been a worldwide pioneer in testing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Furthermore, only eight of the compounds could be identified. The remaining ones were labeled as “uncharacterized.”

“The 92 unknown molecules we found have never been studied by scientists. So we don’t know whether they’re safe or dangerous, whether they are nutrients or toxins,” Fagan added.

Fagan expressed concern regarding the presence of Benthiavalicarb-isopropyl, an agricultural fungicide, in the Bored Cow samples.

“I 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,” he said, “So the things that we see here are not really good for us, let me put it that way.”

HCI’s official report has not been published yet.

But suffice to say, these results contradict Perfect Day’s claim that its product — used by Bored Cow — is “identical to what cows make.”

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