how near is our technology into making a machine that can manufacture grass into milk?

Question

i mean is it possible to do this with our technology today, to simulate a cows digestive system that can make milk from grass and water in 24 hours, it can help billions of lives specially those very poor nations whose people are dying from starvation?

Answer 1

Um, I'm guessing we're light years away from that. Anyway, it would make more sense to give them some dairy goats and teach them how to care for them. That way they'll have milk, meat, and a means to produce income for themselves. Heifer International does a great service with that sort of thing.

All mammals produce milk after pregnancy, and will continue to do so as long as you keep milking them out. That's why you hear of women who are still nursing their 7 year olds. You'd have to create a machine with working boobs, and that's not gonna happen.

Answer 2

I am no technology whiz or know much about cows or anything but I don't believe that a cows digestive system coverts grass to milk directly. I think a cow eats grass as nourishment and the milk we get is milked out of the cows lactating teat. Its like pregnant mothers I think, the food a pregnant mother eats doesn't get converted into milk directly; the food is digested as nourishment and the milk ducts in the breast make milk which the baby then drinks. So to answer your question I don't think there is a way to convert grass into milk.

Answer 3

bovine lache makers.... isn't that cows?

anyway, there is no grass in milk out system in cows any more than we have in a human female for milk out of a hamburger.
the technology to break down grass and turn the components into milk is several decades, maybe even about a century away at the least as far as i can guess, and even then the energy requirement would make it impractical. it's just not that simple to turn one very complicated mixture of organic compounds into another. think turning lead into gold, then try to apply it to every other element in the upper block of the periodic table at once without any mix ups.

Answer 4

Grass into milk? Hmmmmm. We are pretty close now. Ever heard of Soy Milk? Milk from beans. Its delicious. I prefer it over cow's milk. I'm not sure about the process of grass into milk. Duplicating the process of the mammary glands couldn't be that hard though. Milk is just Fat, Protein and Calcium really, with antibodies to help the young fight off infection.You wouldn't have to use grass at all .

Answer 5

We are verrrrryyyyy far from that. Milk has sugars, fat (triglycerides) and amino acids (protein). Making this stuff through science is much complex. I would say we will first be making glucose from cellulose, to start with, which solves the hunger probelm somewhat. But thinking about converting cellulose to glucose itself is pretty difficult, even though when you look at cellulose and sucrose and glucose, it should be a piece of cake. Triglycerides and amino acids...... well. I am not keeping my fingers crossed right now - not going to happen in my life time.

Answer 6

Not yet and it will more than likely be a biotech machine. I think we're getting there probably within the net 50 years or less.

Answer 7

Technology is busy locating other earth-like planets in the universe.... it is so far-sighted that the crying problems on our laps are outside the scope of its sight-screen!!!

Thank you for a KEY question!!!!

Answer 8

We already got those machines...that are called Bovine Lache Makers...... but then you know that don't you. I believe you are full of Bravo Sierra.........that is Navy talk for Male Bovine Excreta!!

Answer 9

Hmm. Instant alchemy.

Answer 10

about the same time that they start doing brain transplants..
Any volunteers?