Introduction
Clean milk is a name used to refer to milk created by technological means without the need for cows. It must be distinguished from plant-based “milks” – drinks approximating milk made from the likes of soy, nuts, rice, coconut, and so forth – as it aims to replicate dairy at a molecular level. The most notable producer of clean milk is Perfect Day (formerly Muufri), a biotechnology start-up funded by New Harvest, a charitable organization that has also funded research into the development of clean (in vitro) meat. However, home biohackers – including those associated with the US-based Real Vegan Cheese project – are pursuing similar goals. Perfect Day’s milk is set to be commercially launched in 2018, somewhat sooner than even optimistic launch dates for clean meat products.
One might assume that the ethical issues raised by clean milk parallel...
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Milburn, J. (2018). Clean Milk. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_598-1
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