Comment on don't tell iceland

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So many questions. How does one go about milking a whale? How do you make cheese from milk with a thickness similar to No. 4 Fuel Oil? Who was the first person to attempt to milk a whale? Who is buying up all these whale dairy products? Is there such a thing as a whale milk cheesecake?

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So I elected not to look into it, because I doubt that zoos are selling it. Which means it’s likely sourced from whalers

    Japan, Iceland, Norway, are all actively fishing commercially (though Japan uses the cover of “scientific” expeditions to justify it.)

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    • almost1337@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      According to their process page the whales are guided into a harness and then milked. Whether or not we should believe it, I cannot say.

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      • Caspase8@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t believe it. The profile photos of their ‘team’ look AI generated.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The street address doesn’t exist. April fools

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Must be an April Fools prank.

    215 Juniper St. Pismo Beach CA doesn’t exist.

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• CoolGirl586@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well the reviews are from the Oculus marketing lead, a, Simian Field Reseacher (sic) and an independent shoe salesman. Two of them even have the same picture. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that this isn’t real.

  Plus they’re touting it as the new sustainable future of dairy. That alone is an insane thing to claim. There are fewer than thirty thousand gray whales in the world. They produce eighty gallons of milk a day. That’s about twelve cows worth if you ignore that most of it is going to be drunk by the whale’s calf.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup.

    I’m thinking it either flopped or was never a thing.

    I doubt it’s something that could be reliably commercialized.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plus cow dairy requires constant breeding in order to keep the cows milk supply up. Just like humans, they only produce milk after giving birth and for a limited time.

    Breeding cows in captivity is pretty standard fare these days.

    I’m not sure whale breeding is an industry that currently exists. Nor is whale sperm harvester. As if milking a female whale is complicated enough.

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• AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But why is this any more disgusting than cow milk cheese or goat milk cheese?

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well.

    I hate to break it to you… but the whales probably aren’t milked more than once.

    My guess is it’s sold by whalers.

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They talk about their process. It involves a whale harness, and divers to do the milking.

      I’m honest still wondering if this is an elaborate joke 😆

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sorry. I can’t resist this any longer

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    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you think happens to dairy cows after their milk production declines? Or their male calves?

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’d be my bet. I’d bet they aren’t even “milked”. The probably just take it out of the body manually. I assume whales probably carry a lot of milk though, so if someone is killing whales I guess it’s good it’s being used for something… although that gives more profit to the whalers so maybe not.

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      • almost1337@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        According to their process page the whales are guided into a harness and then milked. Whether or not we should believe it, I cannot say.

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• vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  aaand they’re sold out

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That earthly address does not exist. Pismo Beach is just that, a beach. (You can successfully dig for clams there, or you could when I was a kid.) And there’s no street by that name anywhere in the vicinity.

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