• gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    so what you’re saying is that it’s the population density that’s unsustainable? not the milk itself?

    also do you have a link that it’s unsustainable? because i’m not so sure about that. the world can currently produce about 2-3x the amount of food that we actually need, i don’t see that declining by more than 60% any time soon.

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        1 month ago

        this is depending on poore-nemecek 2018, a paper with serious methodological flaws.

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        1 month ago

        Milk has higher environmental impact than plant based milk ≠ milk is unsustainable.

        Milk is in fact a very nutritious aliment and many parts of the world depend on it as base for nutrition.

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            1 month ago

            Is milk killing the planet? That’s news to me.

            The fact that there are more sustainable alternatives to milk is not evidence that milk is unsustainable.

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                1 month ago

                You could argue vegetable milk is also contributing to killing the planet. Doing that is clearly pointless.

                Is the pollution produced by the production of milk significant, in such a way that reducing it would lead to measurable changes?

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                    1 month ago

                    Work on improving the efficiency of the Haber-Bosch process used in the production of nitrogen just 1%.

                    That will probably have a stronger impact than removing all milk production and private jets from the planet.

                    There are places in which it is more efficient to optimize since that optimization will lead to a greater benefit.

                    Is reducing the production of milk potentially one of these important optimizations?