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Some genetic engineers are working on ways to keep milk and get rid of the cows.
They're doing it by engineering yeasts and plants with bovine genes to make the key proteins responsible for milk’s color, satisfying taste, and nutritional punch.
It's part of a larger trend of replacing animals with ingredients grown in labs, steel vessels, or plant crops.
The FDA says commercial milk is safe because it is pasteurized, killing germs.
It's not clear yet whether the bird flu outbreak on dairy farms is a big danger to humans.
The idea of using yeast to create food ingredients, chemicals, and even fuel via fermentation is one of the dreams of synthetic biology.
The New York Times published an op-ed arguing that the virus was the result of a lab accident.
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