What dairy products are best for the environment?
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Question by LizWiz: What dairy products are best for the environment?
Consider hormones, processing, water & grain required to feed cattle/goats, etc. What dairy products have the smallest environmental impact? Please explain & cite your sources. Thanks! 😀
What do you think? Answer below!
4 Responses to What dairy products are best for the environment?
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they are all good, unless you are lactose intolerant, they you’ll need to have some bacteria to help you digest it.
Nata T
August 21, 2012 at 4:05 pm
I switched to rice milk.
Amy
August 21, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Awww, cute, you want us to do your homework.
Goat milk is the best for the environment in most parts of the world. Camels in other parts, water buffalo in still other parts. Still others it would be mares milk.
No one milk source is perfect for all parts of the world. Still in general, goats are the most environmentally sound.
Goats can turn scrub vegetation into milk and flesh edible for humans. Goats can live in areas were other animals would completely fail to thrive.
Dairy cow in general need land that is quality enough that crops could be grown on the land, rather than grazing cattle. Goats can live where NO crops can be grown to support human life.
Goats produce more milk, on less food, and less land than a dairy cow.
Since goats milk is also the most like human breast milk it’s actually good for people. Cows milk does not have the same health benefits as goat milk.
~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years
Source? Me, myself & I. You received your answer directly from a farmer with over 80 goats in their herd, and decades of experience.
Bohemian_Garnet_Permaculturalist
August 21, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Goats or wilder sheeps, they eat sticker bushes and everything the domesticated fat cows snob away from.
Tizal
August 21, 2012 at 5:28 pm