We don’t have a lot of your additives and our milk contains less sugar, for some reason. So I’m not bothered by that stuff.
We are one of the world’s large dairy exporters (mostly to China).
The dairy industry here is mostly grass fed, it’s a massive emitter of climate change gasses, leading us to be one of the high polluters per capita in the world.
It has also destroyed our river ecology due to fertiliser run off and excrement.
Culturally, domestically New Zealand is a massive dairy consumer (for reference an average household of 3 uses a 1kg (2.2 pound) block of cheese per week, 4 litres of milk and 500g (1 pound) of butter every week. Most Americans are surprised to hear we put butter on all our sandwiches).
I have no intention of becoming vegan.
But I have lobbied my representative for way more legislative curbs on the dairy industry and I have committed to eating less dairy myself.
I’m not au fait with your dairy industry but by 2050 we will look back on the wildfires and storms and landslides we’re having now as “the good old days”.
I don’t live in the US. I live in New Zealand.
We don’t have a lot of your additives and our milk contains less sugar, for some reason. So I’m not bothered by that stuff.
We are one of the world’s large dairy exporters (mostly to China).
The dairy industry here is mostly grass fed, it’s a massive emitter of climate change gasses, leading us to be one of the high polluters per capita in the world.
It has also destroyed our river ecology due to fertiliser run off and excrement.
Culturally, domestically New Zealand is a massive dairy consumer (for reference an average household of 3 uses a 1kg (2.2 pound) block of cheese per week, 4 litres of milk and 500g (1 pound) of butter every week. Most Americans are surprised to hear we put butter on all our sandwiches).
I have no intention of becoming vegan.
But I have lobbied my representative for way more legislative curbs on the dairy industry and I have committed to eating less dairy myself.
I’m not au fait with your dairy industry but by 2050 we will look back on the wildfires and storms and landslides we’re having now as “the good old days”.