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'Right in the firing line': New lab-grown milk substitute could threaten NZ's dairy sector
(www.newshub.co.nz)
this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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Theoretically, any feedstock that can be converted to sugar would work.
Bioreactors that take "waste" plant material and convert it to sugars have proved very difficult to perfect. There were a huge number tried when biodiesel was "the next big thing".... None became commercially viable, which is why biodiesel died....