Vegetarian Butcher breeds on cowless milk

Jaap Korteweg, the founder of the Vegetarian Butcher, is still thinking about bringing vegan milk to the market.

In an interview that Korteweg recently had with the acquisition platform Brookz, he expresses his ambition to become a vegan milkman. The founder has been mulling over the plan to develop cowless milk for some time, because at the end of 2017 he told de Volkskrant that he finds it a challenge to develop milk from grass.

Low chance
However, the realization of the idea still seems a long way off, because Korteweg gives himself a 1% chance that this idea can be implemented. He does say that others think his chances are greater, since he has also managed to make the Vegetarian Butcher a success. At the end of last year it was announced that the Vegetarian Butcher was acquired by Unilever for an undisclosed amount.

Korteweg's idea is not new, because in the United States there is already a company that has developed 'milk replacer' based on genetically modified yeast.

Wouter Job

Wouter Baan is editor-in-chief of Boerenbusiness. He also focuses on dairy, pig and meat markets. He also follows (business) developments within agribusiness and interviews CEOs and policymakers.

w.baan@boerenbusiness. Nl

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