Kite Hill - artisanal VEGAN cheese!

[StrayKat]

3. One Reason

Because substituting cheese for meat isn't really using less cow product. You still need to (factory) farm those cows for their milk, which is food for their babies. So, if you want to use the milk for yourself instead, you not only need to keep the cows raped and pregnant to stimulate lactation, you also need to slaughter the babies (at least the bulls) and waste them or use them to perpetuate the veal industry. Going full vegan goes much, much farther to reduce environmental harm, if that's your goal.

The estimates that I've seen that indicate that going vegetarian would help the environment assume that the change would include and increase in plant-product consumption. Simply substituting 4 oz of cheese for 4 oz of meat isn't a large help to the environment.

While the environmental consequences of eating meat are frequently discussed, the fact that cheese is also one of the top climate culprits may come as a surprise to many. But it takes 10 pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese, Hamerschlag explained. That equates to a lot of methane and manure from dairy cows. - HuffPo