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Zen Lill, Helena, et al: This write interested me. Although we will never know what was truly said when thugs with guns shoot black men because unfortunately they appear to shoot to kill, leaving the cop and his/her fellow officers as the only ones able to give an account of the story.

Helena: First of all, I am so sorry for your brother, and for what you had to go through. I hope you and yours are doing well. Secondly, you touched on this briefly, and I think it is a very important point to look at.

We keep talking about whether the cop shooting a black man is justified, but what we haven’t really talked about is what happens when the shooting is over, and the person who was just shot is lying there in their own pool of blood.

Then what is happening? This write delves into just that question.

From the Huff Po:

Rakeyia Scott’s Slip Of The Tongue Is A Window Into The Poignancy Of Police Shootings

“Did y’all call the police?” Keith Scott’s widow asked officers as her husband lay dying.

In this image taken from video recorded by Keith Lamont Scott’s wife, Rakeyia Scott, on Tuesday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg officers squat next to Keith Lamont Scott as Scott lies face-down on the ground.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. ― When Rakeyia Scott saw cops surrounding her husband, Keith Scott, she immediately worried they might shoot him. She pulled out her cell phone camera.

The horrifying video she captured has now been seen millions of times. One poignant moment, however, stands out.

As officers huddle around her dying husband, she shouts out: “Did y’all call the police?”

Call the police. It’s what one does, or is supposed to do, when a crime has been committed, when someone is in need of help. The idea that the police exist to protect and serve is so powerful that it broke through the reality of what she had just witnessed: police shooting her husband to death.

She quickly caught her mistake. “I mean, did y’all call the ambulance?”

Given the nonchalant attitude officers betrayed as Keith Scott lay on the pavement bleeding, she didn’t wait for an answer and took it upon herself to call 911.

The reaction of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg officers to a man dying at their feet was strikingly familiar. The ubiquity of cellphone, dashcam and surveillance video has transformed the way the public understands police violence. But as scene after scene unfolds on shaky screens and in grainy contours, another element of the violence is beginning to come into focus: the pattern of officers seeming to show no concern for the person they have shot, often fatally.

The nonchalance around the injured and the dying is stunning in its own way.

(I could not embed video here so click on the photo to watch the video on the Huff Po.)

Set aside the question of whether any particular shooting was justified, either legally or morally. Perhaps it was. Perhaps the officer had no other choice. Even in such a situation, though, the officer has just exercised the most terrifying of powers ― the use of lethal force against another human being. And yet no care seems to be taken of that human being.

Consider another recent police shooting caught on video: that of Charles Kinsey, who survived. Kinsey, a black behavioral therapist in North Miami, Florida, was trying to help a man with autism who was sitting in the street blocking traffic. A cellphone video shows Kinsey himself lying on the ground with his hands in the air. He was trying to explain to police that the other man had a toy truck and not a gun, contrary to what a 911 caller had reported.

One of the officers fired three times, hitting Kinsey in the leg. Then Kinsey said he was handcuffed and left bleeding on the street for 20 minutes before an ambulance arrived.

And this was a case in which the police understood, right from the start, that the man they shot was the victim.

Letting the body lie where it falls is a fairly common trend in these high-profile police shootings. After Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police shot and killed Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, on July 5, the officers appeared rattled by what had happened. But as for Sterling, they said to “just leave him,” according to a witness.

In Ferguson, Missouri, officers left Mike Brown’s body in the street for four hours, an indignity that protesters have referred to often.

Cedrick Chatman was shot four times, within 10 seconds, as he ran from officers on the south side of Chicago. Then they handcuffed the dying teen, and an officer placed his boot on top of him.

After officers shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, the child was still alive. Even when police realized he was just a kid with a toy gun, they still failed to offer basic medical assistance. (They have since said they thought his toy gun was real and were afraid for their lives.) Instead, when his 14-year-old sister, T.R., ran toward him crying out, “My baby brother, they killed my baby brother,” one of the officers tackled her. She tried to get up and crawl toward her dying brother, but the second officer dragged her down. She was handcuffed and put in the backseat of a car, left to watch her brother continue to bleed while the officers did nothing.

“When Tamir’s mother, Samaria Rice, heard about the shooting and rushed to the park, the officers refused to release T.R. into her custody and told her she had to choose between going to the hospital with her fatally wounded 12-year-old son and staying with her handcuffed 14-year-old daughter, who was in the back of the car with the very same officers who had shot her son,” the Rice family’s lawyers have since written.

On Dec. 28, an Ohio grand jury chose not to indict the officer who fatally shot Tamir.

When a Tulsa, Oklahoma, reserve deputy accidentally shot 44-year-old Eric Harris, he was already being subdued by other officers. “Oh shit, he shot me!” Harris says in the video. “I’m losing my breath.”

“Fuck your breath,” one officer says in response, among the last words Harris would ever hear.

If black lives truly mattered, police would make an attempt to save the dying. If black lives truly mattered, the dead would be afforded more dignity. It is this lack of caring for a fellow human being in his last moments, over and above the violence itself, that reinforces the belief that black lives don’t matter.

After shooting LaQuan McDonald, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke can be seen in video meandering about the crime scene. When North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager shot and killed Walter Scott, he casually walked toward his body. Later, more officers stand around Scott, and it takes some time for any of them to check for a pulse.

Videos of police behaving nonchalantly after shooting white people have also come to light. Andrew Thomas, driving drunk, flipped his car and his passenger was thrown from the vehicle. Paradise, California, police officer Patrick Feaster witnessed the crash and pulled up behind them. Instead of attending to the passenger or helping Thomas out of the car, he simply drew his weapon, aimed, fired and struck Thomas in the neck, all in a matter of seconds. Then he radioed that the driver was refusing to exit the car, not mentioning for 11 minutes that he had shot him.

Almost instantly after confronting Kajieme Powell in St. Louis, police shot him. Then they rolled over his body to put him in handcuffs. “They’re putting him in cuffs. He’s dead. Oh my God,” one bystander can be heard saying in a video. “Now they cuffin’ him, he’s already dead.”

In fact, in reviewing nearly every publicly available video of a police shooting over the past year or so, it is close to impossible to find footage of an officer aiding the person who has been shot.

Video of 25-year-old Freddie Gray’s arrest shows him screaming out, possibly in pain, as he is placed in the back of a Baltimore police van. Knowledge of what happened inside the van is limited, at best. But prosecutors argued in cases against several of the six officers charged in Gray’s death that not buckling his seatbelt was a mistake, whether intentional or not, that contributed to the severity of his injuries. William Porter, whose first trial ended in a mistrial, has also been accused of failing to ensure that Gray was provided immediate medical assistance once he requested help.

That lackluster response, as much as the rough ride, might have cost Gray his life.

It’s this nonchalance that gives weight to claims that too many police officers are operating more like law enforcement warriors than like public servants dedicated to the protection of others. Couple this with officers’ unwillingness to publicly shoulder any moral responsibility in these deaths, and we can only conclude that they believe those on the receiving end of police violence have invited death upon themselves.

When social activists like Colin Kaepernick protest police violence against black people, the black-on-black crime rate is often raised in response. But Rakeyia Scott’s powerful slip of the tongue ought to show people who couldn’t see it before why that response is so offensive, and why police violence itself carries a unique resonance. The police are supposed to be the ones you call for help. Learning that they are, instead, the perpetrators of violence, flips everything upside down.

If police officers want to convince the public they value black lives as much as any others, they need to start acting like the life they just took matters to them. They need to call the police.

Video produced by Amber Ferguson.

This is the third version of this article published by HuffPost. We’ll continue to update it and publish new versions until police officers begin responding to their own shootings by aiding the people they’ve just shot.

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Abie: I’m sorry. I found your first post (Abeque) in my spam folder. I check there every few days to see if someone is there that shouldn’t be there. Although I also checked there for any of your friends and didn’t see them in the spam, so I’m not sure why they are having a challenging time posting. That is just how it is sometimes. I don’t necessarily think it is your name or your friends’ names, being the reason you can’t post. Sorry. I hope it is not too inconvenient. I appreciate you and your friends commenting here.

Baahir: Thank you for your sweet note. I know you’ve already been here for two years but I want to personally welcome you to America. I hope it is everything you wish it to be – Happy to hear that so far it has been worth it. :)  Thanks for being a loyal reader for so long. ❤️ back to you.

Social Butterfly: Thanks for posting your video. I don’t remember reading your comment before. My apologies. Lately, with the political climate, and all of these murders, it is challenging to pick and choose what to post when there are so many important topics, including the Dakota access pipeline, to cover. Thanks for the reminder.

Taylor: Thanks for the tip. How about you explaining it to the readers?

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Good morning.

This write from the Huff Po shows how a cop can murder an unarmed black person and his fellow cop buddies, aka thugs with guns, will allow him to plant a gun at the scene. How many times do you think this has happened?

Cop Says He’ll ‘Kill This Motherf****r’ In Video Of Fatal 2011 Shooting

Jason Stockley, no longer on the St. Louis police force, faces a murder charge.

In this photo taken from video footage published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, left, points an unauthorized AK-47 at drug suspect Anthony Lamar Smith’s vehicle on Dec. 20, 2011.

New video footage has surfaced of a 2011 deadly shooting for which a former St. Louis police officer is facing a murder charge, showing the cop during a high-speed pursuit threatening to kill the man he was chasing. Relatives of the slain man, who was black, have accused the cop of planting a gun after the killing.

Videos obtained and published this week by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch show the entire December 2011 incident, including police dashcam footage of Officer Jason Stockley’s attempted arrest of 24-year-old drug suspect Anthony Lamar Smith, the ensuing high-speed pursuit and the fatal shooting that led to a first-degree murder charge this year.

Stockley, who left the police force in 2013, has claimed he fired his weapon in self defense after Smith reached for a revolver police said was found in the vehicle, according to Post-Dispatch reports. Smith’s family, however, maintains that Smith was unarmed and that the gun was placed in his car after the fact.

Tests of the weapon showed only Stockley’s DNA, officials said. The officer said he handled the weapon to unload it after the shooting, the St. Louis newspaper reported.

Stockley was charged with murder in May ― more than four years after the shooting ― in light of new, undisclosed evidence. In August, a federal judge ordered that the records related to the shooting, including video, audio recordings and reports, remain sealed.

The newspaper said it obtained the videos from someone not involved in the legal proceedings.

Warning: The following video may be disturbing to viewers.

As seen in the video above, the incident begins in a restaurant parking lot, where officers attempt to arrest Smith following a suspected drug deal. When Smith flees in his vehicle, Stockley opens fire.

Stockley and fellow officer Brian Bianchi then pursue Smith, reaching speeds of more than 80 mph. Around the 4:10 minute mark of the video, Stockley says he’s “going to kill this motherf****r, don’t you know it.”

Soon after, Stockley tells Bianchi, who’s driving, to “hit him, hit him right now!” Bianchi rams Smith’s sedan with a police SUV, and Stockley jumps from the passenger seat and runs up to the suspect’s vehicle. Seconds later, he fires five shots into the vehicle, killing Smith.

The Post-Dispatch video shows separate footage taken by a witness, which the paper first published in June. That footage shows Stockley return to his vehicle two times, first to place an unauthorized, personally owned AK-47 into the back seat, and later to rummage through a duffle bag. After Smith’s body is dragged from the car, Stockley gets into the front seat, where he stays for roughly 30 seconds.

The Post-Dispatch reports Stockley is free on $1 million bail secured by the St. Louis Police Officers’ Association. A hearing in his murder case is reportedly scheduled for Oct. 3.

In 2013, the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners paid a $900,000 settlement as part of a wrongful death suit filed on behalf of Smith’s young daughter.

Find the full report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch here.

This undated file photo provided by the St. Louis Police Department, shows former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, who was charged in May 2016 in the Dec. 20, 2011, death of 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith, a black man who was a drug suspect and was shot and killed after a high-speed chase. 

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Readers: It took 4 years to uncover the truth, thanks to cell phones and new evidence.

Thoughts? It’s Friday, you know what to do.

Blog me.

Irene: Yeah they wanted him to die. In my opinion, the cops most always want the black man they are shooting to die. They are not aiming to shoot a leg to incapacitate. The thugs want him dead so they can plant drug, guns, and make up stories. A dead man can’t talk and tell his side of the story.

Lisa: Ignorance and lockstep behind their husbands. Either way, they are giving up their power to men by not learning, and just following along.

Rebecca: This really saddens me. Kids should not have to go to school and have a discussion like this. And yet, I’m glad that it is being talked about amongst the students and the staff. Kids need to express their feelings, ask all the questions that are rolling around in their brains, vent if needed, and of course, cry. I never had to go through such horror as a child. No child should have to. And no black person should have to live with the fear of being senselessly killed when a cop pulls him over. Nia: Your comment says it all.

Toni: Yep, even at the expense of the country going to the proverbial hand-basket of shit. Well..it will certainly give plenty for people to bitch about if it does happen. I have faith that it won’t but I certainly don’t like what I’m seeing. Thanks for using your head and voting in your best interest and the best interest of the country. Hillary does need to kick some big ass and we need to get to the polls and take the Senate back. You got it correctamundo. Our country depends on Clinton’s SCOTUS nomination and the Senate’s confirmation.

Delores: I have total faith you can flip em.

Alycedale: Have I told you lately that your comments are just cracking me up? May I borrow your recent? I have a man I want to use them on.

Social Butterfly: I’ve seen it now, thanks to you. That is exactly what I keep saying. Along with the fact that I would be so embarrassed if I were a Trump voter and admitting it to anyone. But that’s the deal, if you were embarrassed you wouldn’t be voting for the scum. So you just walk around saying ignorant shit like Miller, while being an embarrassment to intelligent women like yourself.  Regardless of the reasons, this country is polarized when it comes to political opinions and choices this election season.

We have out work cut out for us. 

Happy Friday!

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GOOD MORNING.

Social Butterfly: I read more on Terrence Crutcher. I am so sad and disgusted over this, and disheartened with humanity. The Family is seeking criminal charges. I signed. But will this help? After checking out the news headlines we can read, the murder of black men continue.

Readers: I am feeling extremely sad, disgusted, and outraged right now over this country. With these recent killings…I know, I know…this is obscenely “normal”…happening to so many black men around the country – it is a “normal” that needs to change. Yet, we don’t hear about all of these senseless killings unless there is some sort of uproar.

#BLM #BlackLiveMatter

Here’s the latest uproar from the Huff Po:

Police In North Carolina Fatally Shoot Black Man, Sparking Protests

Protests erupted after the sixth killing of a civilian by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police in the past year.

Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday fatally shot a black man they said was armed as they searched for someone else,sparking violent protests that injured more than 12 officers. Witnesses said the man who was killed, Keith Lamont Scott, was unarmed.

“He exited the vehicle armed with a handgun,” Charlotte Police Chief Kerr Putney said in a news conference Tuesday. “The officers gave loud, clear verbal commands which were also heard by many of the witnesses.”

Police instructed Scott to drop the weapon, he said, but he re-entered his vehicle and exited again still holding the gun.

“He stepped out, posing a threat to the officers,” so one officer shot at him, Putney said. The officers immediately requested medical help, which performed CPR on the scene. Scott, 43, later succumbed to his injuries while in medical care.

Police identified the shooter as Officer Brentley Vinson, who has worked for the department since July 2014. Vinson is black.

The shooting ― the sixth Charlotte-Mecklenburg police killing of a civilian in the past year ― happened just before 4 p.m. at an apartment complex roughly a mile from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers were searching at the complex for someone else who was wanted on an outstanding warrant, police said in a statement.

Click here to watch first video from write:

The killing unleashed a wave of anger, with hundreds of people converging at the shooting scene, chanting anthems that decried police violence. More than a dozen officers and several members of the press were injured. Police blamed “agitators” who joined the protesters for destroying marked patrol cruisers.

Police said Civil Emergency Unit vehicles were sent to remove officers whose vehicles had been surrounded by protesters.

Overnight, the protesters moved onto I-85, blocked traffic and threw rocks at passing vehicles, WBTV reported.

 To watch the remaining posted videos click over to the original write on the Huff Po.

This is the sixth time in the past year that Charlotte-Mecklenburg officers have been involved in a fatal shooting of a civilian, according to police data. The district attorney found police to be justified in the five previous killings, according to local news channel WSOC-9.

All of the department’s officers began wearing body cameras a year ago. Three of four fatal shootings that happened from September 2015 to May weren’t captured on cameras. It’s unclear if a June 3 shooting was filmed by the department’s body cameras.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s tactical and SWAT units do not wear body cameras, the Charlotte Observer reported.

Putney called the investigation “preliminary” and said both the criminal investigative bureau and internal affairs are involved. Vinson was put on paid leave while the probe is underway.

This article has been updated to include the names of the man who was killed and the shooter, and the protests. Details from a Wednesday press conference with the police chief have also been added.

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Readers: To add to the insanity, the current polls between Clinton and Trump, is just unreal. Unfortunately it is very real and we must really ban together if we are to win. Only 48 days left to put an end to this political madness.

PS: I’ve had lots of trouble this morning. The videos were not showing up after I scheduled the post last night. After checking it this morning I had to recreate the entire blog write. Hence my lateness.

It is what it is. Blog me.  

Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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It appears the latter in the minds of many.

Good morning!

Lately the views of what is right and what is wrong is totally skewed and screwed up.

Here’s the write from Daily Kos:

Convicted serial rapist nominated to NFL Hall of Fame—but sitting during song makes you the bad guy

People like Donald Trump have been worrying their little hands off about San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick’s protest of not standing during the playing of the national anthem. Meanwhile, many NFL executives have trashed Kaepernick.

“I don’t want him anywhere near my team,” one front office executive said. “He’s a traitor.”

A little hyperbolic, but that’s just one guy.

He wasn’t alone in the anger directed toward Kaepernick. In interviews with seven team executives, each said he didn’t want Kaepernick on his team. This is far from scientific, but I believe this is likely the feeling among many front office executives. Not all. But many.

All seven estimated 90 to 95 percent of NFL front offices felt the same way they did. One executive said he hasn’t seen this much collective dislike among front office members regarding a player since Rae Carruth. Remember Rae Carruth? He’s still in prison for the plot to murder his pregnant girlfriend.

As hated as a potential murderer? How about as hated as convicted serial rapist and former NFL defensive back Darren Sharper? 

Sharper, 40, who retired from the NFL in 2011 after helping lead the New Orleans Saints to a Super Bowl championship, had pleaded guilty in federal court in Louisiana in May 2015 to distributing controlled substances to three unsuspecting women and then having sex with them while they were incapacitated.

He also pleaded guilty or no contest last year to rape or attempted rape charges involving nine women, including in Arizona, California and Nevada.

There were numerous other women who came forward making very similar claims against Sharper. He’s also been convicted, admitted to conducting these heinous crimes, and is serving an 18-year sentence for them as we speak. Buy that jersey, guys—Sharper has been nominated to the NFL Hall of Fame!

The list of Modern-Era nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame‘s Class of 2017 is comprised of 94 players and coaches. Among the nominees announced are several first-year eligible players including quarterback Donovan McNabb, running back LaDainian Tomlinson, wide receiver Hines Ward and defensive end Jason Taylor.

And Darren Sharper! Good job, NFL. Will he get through to the list of 25? No. He won’t. Why is he being considered? Not sure. Maybe because he stood for all of those national anthems?

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Readers: Something is seriously wrong when you have white America praising and rewarding a convicted rapist, yet condemning a man for taking a stance and sitting down in protest to raise awareness about issues and injustices that greatly affect the lives and livelihood of OTWs. Truly sickening.

Comments? Blog me. 

/SB: Thanks for the news about France. I always think paying a bit more for my health is worth it. Pay now or pay later. I would rather pay now and hopefully avoid the latter.

On another note, I didn’t hear about Terence Crutcher, but it seems we are on the same page when it comes to the injustice of OTWs. I’m right with you with the broken heart. Another black man senselessly murdered.

Peace & Love: “Live it, Give it.”

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From Think Progress:

The USDA Is Working On A New Type Of Sustainable Food Packaging

The good news is you can eat it.

Think about the food you have sitting in your refrigerator right now: the blocks of cheese, the packages of apples, the cartons of eggs. Chances are that more than a few of those items are wrapped in plastic, and while some of those materials are recyclable, certain kinds of plastic food packaging — the thin film of plastic used to wrap cheeses or meats, for example— can’t be. That creates a stream of non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, fossil fuel-sourced waste that ultimately ends up adding to the 20 million tons of plastic waste floating around the ocean, not to mention landfills. What’s worse, that type of plastic wrapping doesn’t actually help keep food from spoiling, and might actually imbue food with harmful chemicals.

Luckily, researchers from the USDA have devised a different way to package things like meat, bread, and cheese. Instead of using plastic, they’ve developed an edible, biodegradable packaging film made of casein — a milk protein — that can be wrapped around food to prevent spoilage.

The United States produces a lot of milk, but milk consumption has been on the decline for years. So the USDA has been working for decades to find a way to take that excess milk — usually stored in powder form — and create something usable with it. Laetitia Bonnaillie, the principal investigator on the project, told ThinkProgress that the USDA has been working on creating food packaging from leftover milk products for decades. But it was only in the last few years that researchers cracked the code for making casein-based films competitive with plastic-films.

The biggest problem researchers faced with casein-based films, Bonnaillie explained, is that casein is extremely sensitive to water — a serious problem when you’re trying to create a product that is supposed to keep food sealed and dry.

“They are proteins, which love water, and they soak up moisture in the air,” Bonnaillie said. So the team at USDA decided to try adding pectin to the mixture, which Bonnaillie said acts like “a fishnet around the casein particles, to hold them in place.”

Adding pectin to the casein mixture created a film that, while still more sensitive to moisture than plastic, did not immediately dissolve in water or areas with humidity. Moreover, the casein-based film was actually more effective at blocking oxygen than plastic — 250 times more effective, according to Bonnaillie’s measurements. That keeps food from oxidizing and going stale, and also slows down the growth of bacteria.

“Number one product you want is a strong film because if it is too fragile there is no packaging you can make. But you also want it to be a good packaging, and be a good barrier against oxygen and moisture,” Bonnaillie said. “These are qualities that plastic is not good at. It does not block oxygen or light very well.”

There are still some issues associated with the casein-based packaging. Because it is moisture sensitive — and because one of the selling-points is that it is edible — the packaging can’t be used alone on store shelves, yet. In order to keep the packaging both stale and sanitary, Bonnaillie explained that the packaging would need to be used in conjunction with another, secondary layer of packaging. And while that might seem like it would just create more waste, Bonnaillie said that many products already use two layers of packaging —the plastic bag inside of a paper box, for instance. Bonnaillie also suggested that the casein-film could be used to make single-serving packaging for items like a soup or coffee, that, when dropped into hot water, would dissolve completely. The added benefit, she said, would be that the casein-film, when dissolved, would add protein to the food, making it more nutritious.

And it’s not just protein that could be added by the casein-film.

“Proteins are very good at encapsulating materials, so you could add other nutrients to it,” Bonnaillie said. Things like probiotics, or vitamins, could be added to the casein-packaging, creating a kind of single-serving coffee packet that, when dropped in hot water, would give you coffee with a side of probiotics — without all of the plastic.

Beyond food packaging, Bonnaillie said that the casein-based film could be sprayed directly onto food — or directly onto packaging — to create a moisture resistant barrier or add nutrients. Bonnaillie explained that, in tests, cereal flakes sprayed with the casein protein retained their crunch and were much stronger than cereal flakes sprayed with sugar, which is the traditional method producers use to make sure that cereal flakes don’t immediately turn soggy upon contact with milk. If nutrients were added to the casein before it was sprayed on the cereal, then Bonnaillie argued that it would be a more effective, and much healthier alternative to spraying with sugar.

Bonnaillie also said that her team has tested spraying the protein on pizza boxes as a grease repellent. Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of perfluorinated chemicals as lining in pizza boxes, due to concerns over potential toxicity — Bonnaillie suggested that manufactures could use the casein-protein in its place.

Though the technology is still in its early stages, Bonnaillie said that, with the right industry partners, consumers could see packaging on the shelves in as little as a year. And while the cost of the material will almost certainly, at least at first, be higher than traditional plastic packaging, Bonnaillie hopes that both companies and consumers will see the benefit in packaging that is both more eco-friendly and potentially healthier.

“The consumer is more and more interested in saving the environment while also optimizing their nutrition,” she said. “There is definitely interest in this.”

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