{"id":252072,"date":"2024-06-04T07:10:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T07:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/good-better-best-the-climate-impacts-of-milks\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T07:41:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T07:41:38","slug":"good-better-best-the-climate-impacts-of-milks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/good-better-best-the-climate-impacts-of-milks\/","title":{"rendered":"Good, Better, Best: The Climate Impacts of Milks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Milk may do a body good, but it\u2019s not so kind to the planet. Milk\u2019s ethical and environmental drawbacks have led many people to look for alternatives. And although plant-based milk alternatives are not the only factors, dairy milk sales dropped 13% during the Twenty-teens. Since 1975, the amount of milk consumed by the average American has fallen from 1-1\/4 cups to just two-thirds of a cup.<\/p>\n
The dozens of milk alternatives available make cutting out dairy easy. But each alternative has its own nutritional, ethical, and environmental profile that makes choosing among them anything but straightforward.<\/p>\n
To help you make informed shopping decisions, we rank the greenhouse gas emissions of five of the most popular alternatives to plain-old cow\u2019s milk and explore their overall environmental impacts.<\/p>\n
For many people \u2013 especially the <\/p>\n<\/div>\n