Is it better for the environment to drink cow’s milk or soy milk?
by Jacob Leibenluft it takes about 14 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce one calorie of milk protein on a conventional farm … By comparison, Pimentel’s data suggest that it takes about 0.26 calories of fossil fuel to make a calorie of organic soybeans I’m really struggling with my resistance to being vegan these days. Someone described biofuels (at least the ones that use food crops) as a crime against humanity because the food could be used to, well, feed people. The same is therefore true of dairy and meat. Eating animals is a crime against humanity in a world that doesn’t have enough food. And yet I still find myself craving and eating dairy products, even though on a certain level I find them rather gross. Part of the problem is eating out. It’s easy to be vegetarian eating in a restaurant, but much more difficult to be vegan — especially once you get out of major towns (at least in my corner of the US). Another part of the problem is the label-scouring that you get into if
