Milk alternatives to reduce carbon footprint
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2 min readSep 14, 2019
I stopped ordering and buying beef in Jan 2019.
I wanted to go one step further and now cut out cow milk from my diet, so was curious what — from an environmental standpoint — the best alternative is.
Here we go:
Looking at the global averages illustrated in the chart below, producing a glass of dairy milk results in almost three times the greenhouse gas emissions of any non-dairy milks, according to a University of Oxford study.
Where something is produced can mean there is a variation in its impact on the climate, see the chart below on dairy milk.
Conclusion
I’ll be switching to soy milk where I can and will have to hunt down some places which sell oat milk to try it out.
