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Swap Your Meat for Cheese
Most of the story is behind a paywall, so I can only access this snippet of it:
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Swap Your Meat for Cheese
A better meat replacement is hiding in your fridge.
Times are tough for omnivores. By now, you’ve heard all the reasons to eat less meat: your health, the planet, the animals. All that might be true, but for many meat-eaters, vegetables aren’t always delicious on their own. Pitiful are the collards without the ham hock, the peppers without the sausage, the snap peas without the shrimp.
In my family’s universe, meat is the sun around which vegetables, beans, and grains revolve. Take it away, and dinner descends into chaos. As the cook of the family, I’m constantly trying to find ways to reduce our meat consumption. But the mouths I feed, mine included, still crave the taste of meat. Eating less meat and more vegetables can be really difficult—in part because the current meat replacements are so lacking. Do you really crave tempeh? Or a black-bean burger? Yet a solution might already await in your refrigerator—an ingredient that’s easily as savory and satisfying as meat. Toothsome and funky, rich with umami, it makes up for meat’s absence, and then some. If there’s one thing that can turn meat-eaters into plant-lovers, it’s cheese.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...acement/678866/
While I'd love to know what the rest of the story says, I get the very strong suspicion that they have no clue about how the milk is produced to make cheese: You can't have milk to make cheese, without also producing the young required for a mammal to produce milk.
There are very rare "precocious milkers" who produce one offspring and then produce large quantities of milk for years and years. (My SIL had one goat out of her whole herd who continued to produce milk for years after kidding, and among her many goat-owning friends, she was the ONLY one who had a precocious milker - it's an extremely rare occurrence)
But most cows (and other milk producers such as goats and sheep) will only produce milk for a limited number of months before their milk dries up, even without being impregnated again. If you want milk from that cow again, it needs to have another calf.
Since approximately half of the calves born will be males, I'd love to know what exactly they propose be done with all those bull calves. You can't let them all grow to adult bull age - bulls are extremely aggressive and will tear each other (and anyone in their way) to shreds in order to get to a cow in heat. You can castrate them to turn them into steers so they are more docile, but then what do you do with them? Let them grow to adulthood, grazing in pastures and eventually dying of old age? (which from what I understand it's possible for a steer to live for 15 years) If the number of cattle and "cow burps/farts" is such an environmental problem, that doesn't solve that at all.
The only logical answer is to either harvest them for veal, or raise them as beef cattle. In other words: meat.
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