Those Vegan Cowboys
Created in 2020
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Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 82, 9052 Gent, Belgium
Gent
Belgium
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Scale: 11-50
Estimated: 33
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foodtech Value proposition
Grassroots Bandits on a Mission.
Those Vegan Cowboys are on a mission to make the best cow-less milk and cheese.
When you’re trying to watch the stars in the middle of the city, you’re gonna miss most of them. We took a step back into the old west where the stars at night shine big and bright and opened our eyes to new possibilities in the dairy industry.
As one famous cowgirl, Dolly Parton, once said, “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” And that’s exactly what we’re out here doin. Us cowboys put on our thinkin caps, looked at the facts and figures and got to workin with scientists and their fancy technology. We see ourselves as pioneers on this journey to a more sustainable future where we can respect critters and give ‘em the lives they deserve.
Those Vegan Cowboys - Margaret’s Cheese.
Those Vegan Cowboys are developing new vegan food products with the same taste as traditional dairy products such as cheese. Our cowboys work in our NewMilkLab, within the grounds of Ghent University. Our researchers collaborate with scientists and players from the traditional dairy industry to develop milk proteins through microbial fermentation. In part, this is already common practice: nowadays most of all hard cheeses are produced with vegan microbial rennet. Now, Those Vegan Cowboys want to make the casein and other dairy proteins vegan too, by microbial production. Those Vegan Cowboys regard the development of a stainless steel cow as a move forward for the dairy industry which historically already evolved from hand milking, via the milking machine to the fully automatic milking robot of today. Chief Cowboy Jaap Korteweg: “In Ghent, a predecessor of the milking machine was already demonstrated at the agricultural exhibition in 1910. In 1992, a Dutchman, as first farmer in the world, milked all his cows with a milking robot. The modern dairy farm is no more than a factory where machines insert the grass and trucks take out the milk. The cow is an unnecessarily pitiful and inefficient part of this industrial process. The lowlands have a huge tradition of innovation in the dairy industry. For us, this project is no more than a logical next step.''
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