A mother cow is not a milking machine. You wouldn't say that if you saw how she's being milked out in the livestock industry. Her newborn calf is taken away from her. Meanwhile, she has to give more and more milk, even if she is pregnant again. Who's taking it up for her?

Research shows that a cow has to give much more milk than ten years ago. When she is completely exhausted and gives less milk, she goes to slaughter after about five years. While she can be 25. This can't be?

That's how Jaap Korteweg, van De Vegetische Butcher and business partner Niko Koffeman also thought. A new project: making milk and cheese directly from grass.

With De Vegetarian Butcher, Jaap Korteweg managed to conquer the world: to market meat without the need for an animal. Products with the same taste and structure as the animal variant. With Those Vegan Cowboys, he plunges into the adventure to make dairy products with stainless steel cows: milk without cow.

Those Vegan Cowboys With The Vegetarian Butcher Jaap Korteweg taught us that you can eat delicious meat without the need for an animal. With his new company Those Vegan Cowboys he wants to do that same trick with dairy. Jaap: “We look closely what the product is cow's milk, from which cheese, yogurt, buttermilk and fresh milk is made.. How can you do that without the cows? The advantage is — if you don't have too much knowledge of things — that you can make a simple idea of it. You're actually making a cow out of stainless steel. The special thing about a cow is that it has four stomachs — we humans can't digest grass, a cow can — it makes something of that people can eat or drink: the milk that we make dairy products out of. I got to work with that idea.”

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