We gotta talk about cheese... (sorry)

Global production of cheese is skyrocketing and for many, it's the first alternative when we quit meat. But dairy products and cheese especially can have similar impacts on the environment as meat. In some scenarios, they're even more harmful to the planet.

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Reporter: Kai Steinecke (IG: https://www.instagram.com/supersteinii/)
Camera & video editor: Nils Reinecke & Kai Steinecke
Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann & Joanna Gottschalk

Read More (Links):

The environmental impacts of cheese production: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321043001_A_review_of_environmental_life_cycle_assessment_studies_examining_cheese_production

Greenhouse gas emissions of different types of milk: https://www.fao.org/3/i3461e/i3461e04.pdf

Greenhouse gas emissions in milk and dairy productions: https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/45485022/Anna_20Flusj_.pdf

Environmental impacts of different types of food: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

Methane's impact on heating the planet: https://unece.org/challenge

Special thanks to:
Sophie Marbach, New York University, Courant Institute
Romain Gaillac, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris

0:00 Intro
0:55 The Milk Problem
3:23 Processing Cheese
6:20 Making vegan Cheese
7:34 Vegan vs. real cheese (environmentally)
10:30 Conclusion

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