Commentary
Now that companies promoting lab-based dairy and lab-grown foods are getting FDA approval, it’s time to have an uncomfortable but important discussion about the push to reinvent the American diet.
Lab-based dairy, we’re told, is the future. Removing dairy cows from the equation means fewer methane emissions. The environment wins. But you know who loses? Millions of dairy farmers worldwide. Lab-based dairy promises many positives but fails to mention the potential, rather catastrophic downsides of shunning dairy. To “save the environment,” it seems, traditional farming practices must be destroyed.
The global dairy industry is under attack. From Ireland to India, dairy farmers are being forced out by the elites, who believe the dairy industry needs a radical overhaul. They say synthetic milk, also referred to as lab-grown dairy, is the future….