Milk alternatives produce up to 4.5x less greenhouse gas emissions as milk
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#2I heard that the trendy thing to do now in coffee shops is to ask for your drink to be made with regular cow milk.
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#3Not your mom, not your milk :)
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#4And yet coffee shops that claim to be organic, eco conscious and fair trade still penalize you for opting for a milk alternative (by charging extra, like up to $1).
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#5You’ll have my mozzarella from my dead hands!
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#6After ridding the world of fossil fuels and plastics, next up on the agenda is industrial-scale animal husbandry.
Re: Milk alternatives produce up to 4.5x less greenhouse gas emissions as milk
#7I heard that the trendy thing to do now in coffee shops is to ask for your drink to be made with regular cow milk.
As a lactose intolerant person personally I love the fact that there is now a wide proliferation of non-diary creamers that aren't gross french vanilla coffee mate stuff. I used to drink my coffee black because that stuff always made me feel sick. Now I can enjoy it with some almond or oat milk.
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#8And yet coffee shops that claim to be organic, eco conscious and fair trade still penalize you for opting for a milk alternative (by charging extra, like up to $1).
This really pisses me off, even starbucks charges like a dollar for almond/oat milk.
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#9That's nice but it's not milk so ... apples to oranges.
I'm not being unreasonable here, some people just won't give up real meat or milk, ever.
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#10...and yet taxation does not reflect environmental at all.
In some countries cow milk is even subsidized.
Edit: cow milk is actually less healthy than alternatives and there is no reason to encourage it.