The World Wants More Camel Milk

I wonder whether the camels will begin to be farmed intensively, the same as cows?<p>To get cows to produce milk for us, they are artificially inseminated or introduced to a bull once a year to produce a calf. If the calf is born female, she may be raised as part of the dairy herd. If the calf is male, it&#x27;s off to the slaughterhouse or strapped into a pen the size of a cupboard for a few months before slaughter: that gives us veal. Three months after birth, the cow is inseminated again for the next year&#x27;s cycle.<p>The cows are distressed at being separated from their newborn young, year on year, and most only live 4 to 5 years (natural lifespan would be around 18), before being sent to the slaughterhouse themselves: that gives us leather, cosmetics and a hundred other things.

This article misses out the most important part about Camel&#x27;s milk. You can freeze it.<p>If you&#x27;ve ever tried freezing cow milk and thawing it you know it&#x27;s ruined. But Camel milk can be frozen and thawed without changing the taste. I&#x27;ve had it a couple of times and, as a regular cow milk drinker, have a hard time telling the difference.

There is a camel dairy west of San Diego. They have tours one weekend a month if you want to go.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cameldairy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cameldairy.com&#x2F;</a> — they also win the obvious url prize.<p>Apparently it is illegal for them to sell the milk for consumption, so they turn it into skin care products.

The world maybe, Germany certainly not. On our last German Perl user group meeting an old ex-organizer presented their struggles with the German authorities to import a small amount of camel milk to Germany from Israel. We wanted to make ice out of it, and we are obviously very fond of camels, being our mascot. Even if we got first permission to import camel milk, in the end the veterinarian refused to hand it over and it was destroyed in orderly fashion. We had to take the costs. I hope they will put up the YouTube video soon of this camel milk story.

Having been around camels, they can truly be foul tempered creatures (while 1% are quite lovely) and I do not envy anyone who works with them daily.<p>On a side note, I am going to go try some camel milk now. But this absolutely seems more like a fad then reality. I mean goats milk seems to have a solid market share (and I am a sucker for carrageenan free chocolate goats milk) but unless camel milk tastes like a fresh macaron, I don&#x27;t know if I would go out of my way or pay a premium.

These submarine articles are getting weirder and weirder

Camel meat is also delicious.

So is this the new fad after almond and coconut milk?<p>Or does it also cater to people who are lactose intolerant? I wonder if I will be seeing Camel milk at a Starbucks soon.

Milk, produced by the mothers on this earth is supposed to be drunk by their infants, not by any other animal or humans! It&#x27;s quite stupid to drink &quot;another type&quot; of animal milk to cure stomach problems. Stop it all together to cure because the human body is not made to drink milk after infant state.