• gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Milk isn’t sustainable.

    meanwhile the article literally mentions that this business has been going on for 800 years in italy.

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      2 days ago

      well the thing is that there weren’t 8.3 billion people in the past, and a shit ton of other pollutants

      • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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        2 days 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.

          • ranzispa@mander.xyz
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            2 days 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.

            • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml
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              1 day ago

              sustainable means nothing if something that is killing the planet counts as sustainable

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                24 hours 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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                  23 hours ago

                  it’s one of the things that’s killing the planet

                  i wouldn’t call it sustainable if the end result is an unlivable planet, if nothing is done about the emissions

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                    23 hours 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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      2 days ago

      Do you think the amount of cheese eaten in Italy might have increased a bit over the last 800 years?