Watching: In a Nutshell on milk

I like the “In a Nut­shell” series and their most recent one looks at milk (hat­tip Kot­tke). Although I’m a long­time veg­an, I’m just as hap­py to see that a lot of the more sen­sa­tion­al health claims for and against dairy have not panned out in the larg­er stud­ies. For me, envi­ron­men­tal impact and the cru­el­ty of the fac­to­ry farm­ing sys­tem are rea­son enough to lim­it dairy.

There’s a great chart around 8:38 look­ing at the envi­ron­men­tal impacts of dairy and plant-based milks, which looks at emis­sions, land use, and water use. It’s help­ful to see all three stats since some plant-based milks look good in one cat­e­go­ry but atro­cious in anoth­er. To the right is a relat­ed chart from a recent BBC arti­cle, Which Veg­an Milk is Best? (hint: soy and oat are the over­all winners).

 

One thought on “Watching: In a Nutshell on milk

  1. re almond milk: The impact is under­stat­ed, in that it takes no account of bees being unsea­son­ably shipped and over­con­cen­trat­ed around almond groves where they’re exposed not only to bee pathogens but round-up & insec­ti­cides. (There are some organ­ic almonds being grown, but hard­ly enough of them, or cheap enough, to be milked.)

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