Those Vegan Cowboys

Founded in 2008, Those Vegan Cowboys is a dairy industry manufacturer based in Gent (Zwijnaarde), Belgium selling ingredients & cultures.

Those Vegan Cowboys is a biotech company based near Ghent University in Belgium that produces animal-free casein and other milk proteins using precision fermentation. The company was founded in 2008 as a lab developing microbial platforms for recombinant human proteins for the pharmaceutical industry, and it operated under the Those Vegan Cowboys name from January 2020. Its casein is intended for cheese, chocolate, sports nutrition, desserts and other food applications, and is sold business-to-business to cheesemakers, chocolate manufacturers and other food producers. The company states that its casein is identical in function to dairy casein and claims significantly lower greenhouse gas, land and water impacts. It describes its own cheese products as in development, with tastings planned in the Netherlands and a US market entry pending regulatory approval.