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Say Cheese: Is It Bad For Environment?

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Cheese is delicious, creamy food that we all love. But is it bad for the environment? This episode explores the impact of cheese production on the environment and whether we should be eating less cheese.

Cheese has a high carbon footprint because it takes a lot of milk to produce a pound of cheese, 10 pounds of milk, on average, go into producing a pound of hard cheese,” says a senior analyst at EWG. “You’re producing the milk from a dairy cow that is emitting large quantities of methane, which has a global-warming impact 25 times higher than carbon. And then you have the methane and nitrous oxide that are also generated from the cow’s manure. And then all of the grains go into feeding the cows, ranging from corn to alfalfa and other forage, and there’s a footprint associated with that.

Say Cheese: Is It Bad For Environment?

Say Cheese: Is It Bad For Environment?

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