• @jubilationtcornpone
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    413 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?

    • FuglyDuck
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      233 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.)

          • cabbage
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            Nothing is found when searching for their names. There’s not a thing out there about “Chief Scientist” Mark Linneaus, although he claims to have had an academic career. If he in fact “dedicated more than 20 years to investigating how diet and environment shape mammalian milk production”, it is surprising that his name is nowhere to be found on Google Scholar.

            Not to get started on the pictures of their alleged cheeses. There’s red flags all over the website. At least they don’t accept orders, so it looks more like a joke than a scam.

            It’s a shame though, I would love to try sustainably produced whale cheese.

      • @Mouselemming
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        13 months ago

        The street address doesn’t exist. April fools

    • @Mouselemming
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      13 months ago

      Must be an April Fools prank.

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