This just in from Hippy Shopper
With a similar taste to cow's milk (though without its propensity to curdle) and three times the vitamin C, Mauritanian camel milk is a new hot product on the global market. It can even be made into cheese with a similar taste to goat Camembert (but don't look for that on the market since red tape is threatening to choke the product's export chances before they even get started). In a country where 2/3 of the population live on £1 per day, fair trade camel dairy products could make a huge difference: the potential market is tagged at a cool £10bn. Thanks to the dairy, Mauritania's nomads have been able to connect to the ever-globalizing world without being swallowed by it.I hope the red tape thing can be cleared up, but you never know. At a farmer's market in Minneapolis, I stopped to admire some bison jerky...but gagged when I saw the label and how full of nitrites, msg, etc., the stuff was. When I asked the farmer-guy if he was ever going to have some jerky w/o chemicals, he said he actually was in the process of doing it, BUT there was a LOT more onerous bureaucracy (including having inspectors actually WATCH him making jerky, which, if he makes it the way I make it, it's literally like watching meat dry) if you want to try to keep the meat in its natural state, like the Indians and early pioneers did forever. I don't know why the government puts so much faith in chemicals: tons of nitrites and MSG, ergo okay to eat.
Doesn't that seem kind of backwards?
Any USDA inspectors out there?
2 comments:
I live in Georgia and have been raising camels for over 12 years now. I am thinking about starting up a small camel dairy. The camels can priduce 25 - 35 litres of milk each day and right now I have 5 producing females. So that could potentially be 175 litres each day! I wonder if I could get some backers to help me with the start up of building a milking facility? hmmmm, my email is donnascarousel@bellsouth.net
Hi Donna,
have you tried the milk? If you want to write about it in a guest post...be my guest!!
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