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[BobJustBob]

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[ISOM]

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More like Mork. Maybe from the best cockroaches on the planet.

 

[Redd]

If it's not from actual roaches like they claim and taste good I would try it.

 

[Breakage]

Man, cockroaches make my skin crawl. They are fucking rapid.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

My answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7fCQlUhj0

 

[Goro Majima]

Do roaches have nipples? Damn, must need some really small hands.

 

[jett]

Scientists sequenced the genes for the milk protein to reproduce the substance in a lab.

What's the problem here, then.

 

[Zereta]

I'm all for science and discovery changing the way we live, improving things.

I have to nope all the way out of this one though. Fuck this.

 

[J_ToSaveTheDay]

First, the reminder of crickets being a snack in some places when I go to 7-11 today (just brazenly for sale on the front counter, straight up box full of salted crickets) and now scientific speculation on the nutritional benefits of "roach milk."

Food is awesome. Food is weird. Food is.... I'm never eating a goddamn thing that came from a roach.

 

[ffejeromdiks]

Sounds good to me, it's not like we're going to be sucking it out of a roach teat or anything.

 

[Dirtyshubb]

poor little guys

Shows how bad the food industry is, you get so many arguments that eating animals is vital for nutrients etc. yet we will kill things just to change the colour of a food item.

 

[Chobel]

On a related note, castoreum -- an extract of beaver anal glands -- is used as vanilla flavoring in some food products.

 

[Always-honest]

Superfood?

 

[MMaRsu]

genius

 

[Imperfected]

What's the problem here, then.

Even better, this is the perfect case for finally getting people to stop being terrified of synthetic nutrition and GMOs.

Do you want the natural cockroach milk, or will you settle for vat-produced?

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Scientists sequenced the genes for the milk protein to reproduce the substance in a lab.

 

[Nikodemos]

Shows how bad the food industry is, you get so many arguments that eating animals is vital for nutrients etc. yet we will kill things just to change the colour of a food item.

Cochineal had been used by the Aztec and Maya for nearly 1000 years before Spanish invasion.
Lac from the wax beetle was used in India for over 2000 years. It is still used, both as dye and varnish (shellac).

 

[paradise_circus]

sounds like a great idea for animal farms

 

[buy teh haloz]

Even better, this is the perfect case for finally getting people to stop being terrified of synthetic nutrition and GMOs.

Do you want the natural cockroach milk, or will you settle for vat-produced?

Excuse me, I only drink organic, free range cockroach milk

 

[Kill Your Masters]

First, the reminder of crickets being a snack in some places when I go to 7-11 today (just brazenly for sale on the front counter, straight up box full of salted crickets) and now scientific speculation on the nutritional benefits of "roach milk."

Food is awesome. Food is weird. Food is.... I'm never eating a goddamn thing that came from a roach.

If you eat chocolate you are probably eating part of a roach or insect. About 8 different parts to be precise.

 

[Gr1mLock]

I refuse.

 

[Nephtis]

hahahahahahaha
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hahahahahahaha
ahahahahhaha
ahahahahahahahahaha

no

 

[Hasney]

 

[d9b]

Nope!

 

[oti]

Now y'all saying Nope but when Starbucks introduces the Roachy Frappucino Vanilla Salted Caramel Latte y'all be posting it on yo Instagram like no tomorrow.

 

[Ban Puncher]

 

[Nephtis]

Now y'all saying Nope but when Starbucks introduces the Roachy Frappucino Vanilla Salted Caramel Latte y'all be posting it on yo Instagram like no tomorrow.

hahahahaha

I only laugh because it's true

Spoiler

D:

 

[Chichikov]

Well, as someone who milked cows and seen the shit that can come out of their udders, I'm not sure this is a downgrade.

 

[InfiniteNine]

Well I'll try it to see if it tastes good I imagine it'd be used more as an ingredient in processed foods though.

 

[televator]

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[efyu_lemonardo]

Yes!!

Saw this the other day, glad to see GAF rising to the occasion

 

[Possumowner]

I'll try anything anything once,sometimes twice.But this is pushing it,i hate the buggers

 

[ArchedThunder]

"Just don't expect farmers to open up vast new cockroach ranches where cockroach-pokes rope, wrangle and milk the insects.

Scientists sequenced the genes for the milk protein to reproduce the substance in a lab."

Stop ignoring this part.
Get me them crystals now, I want em.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

I'm glad scientists are not one for clickbait:

Structure of a heterogeneous, glycosylated, lipid-bound, in vivo-grown protein crystal at atomic resolution from the viviparous cockroach Diploptera punctata

 

[Unicorn]

You can milk anything with nipples

I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

They'd better name it something weird and hide it in the ingredients list.

E897 (or whatever number we're up to)

 

[televator]

Science was a mistake.

 

[SeriuzBiznus]

Eh, I'd give it a shot. At least we might finally have a use for cockroaches!

 

[User 479360]

I don't know if I could do it. I'm okay with regular milk, though, and not very health conscious.

 

[Xe4]

is there a vegan option?

Well, it's produced in a lab, from a protein. If the ethical considerations are what bug you, I don't think that's a problem.

That said, its a study, not R&D, something like this is not going to come out for quote a while.

 

[ajim]

I'm down for it. I'll eat the roach too.

 

[KillerBEA]

 

[CrocMother]

Just don't expect farmers to open up vast new cockroach ranches where cockroach-pokes rope, wrangle and milk the insects.

What a weird sentence to put in an article, made me chuckle though.

 

[yepyepyep]

They should call it beetlejuice.

Spoiler

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

 

[Pantaghana]

Eh, not sure why people are so disgusted by the idea. We already happily eat hot dogs, but do you know what those are made of? Do you want to know?

 

[Ahasverus]

Over my dead fucking body. I'm ok with the rest of creatures on earth, but my humanity is not devalued enough to survive from eating a fucking, disgusting, repulsive, dirty cockfuckingroach. I'd rather die.

 

[TsunamiOfSwagger]

Straight from the source.

 

[Gattsu25]

As long as they take out the anus and large intestine I will eat any processed animal

What do you have against hot dogs?

 

[Condom]

Straight from the source.

From the urf

 

[Dark_castle]