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The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans.

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Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 3 days ago by RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works to c/environment@sh.itjust.works

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Obligatory fuck Nestle, but also "low emissions dairy" is a hoax - the "clean coal" of the ag industry.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn’t someone genetically engineer a yeast that produces bovine casein a while ago? Surely growing that in nutrient tanks could be a way of producing something functionally indistinguishable from cow’s milk without the need for large pastures or the methane emissions.

Also, fuck Nestlé. One of the most consistently unethical corporations.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wonder how that'd play out. I mean, if we replaced milk with "same same but different but still same" milk, what would farmers do? Would milk just come from factories instead?

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I mean, it's already coming from factories. The new ones just wouldn't be designed for optimizing animal torture.

The new factories would look a lot like breweries, there'd still be plenty of work to do - maybe a small net loss of headcount per gallon, but from what I understand dairy farming is one of the most difficult farm jobs. As long as there's help transitioning it's a net gain for the world to not have people doing that work.