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Expensive though, at least in Germany it's twice the price of normal milk and they don't even have to hold cows. I understand it's also a smaller market but sti
by lucb1e 5y ago
Expensive though, at least in Germany it's twice the price of normal milk and they don't even have to hold cows. I understand it's also a smaller market but still, I wonder if this is really warranted. It also won't help less determined consumers switch away from dairy products, though luckily there are knock-off brands that also taste nearly the same.
- ajmurmann 5y agoCow milk is also highly subsidised in the EU and sold at closer to zero margin because of the high control over the market relatively few retail chains have, especially in Germany. Oldy but goody: https://www.kuechenstud.io/kuechenradio/episode/kr_121-milchmann/ https://www.kuechenstud.io/kuechenradio/episode/kr_121-milch... Edit: obviously we shouldn't subsidize industrial farming and its carbon emissions and instead charge for these negative externalities. We are all paying for this cheap milk consumption with our climate.
- labster 5y agoIf dairy products get more expensive, people will just switch to eating more meat. People outside of subsistence economies choose food on desires more than on price. I suspect far less negative environmental externality than you think. TL;DR If bacon costs the same as cheese, might as well get bacon.
- ajmurmann 5y agoBy the time you price in all negative externalities, meat would of course be even more expensive.
- lucb1e 5y agoAfaik cheese might actually be worse than bacon, I think pig meat was about on par with cheese and only cow meat was worse (because cheese is so co2e-intensive, not because pig is so good), but I understand your general point.