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Environmental footprints of dairy and plant based milks (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In New Zealand HUGE amounts of fertiliser are used to boost the amount of grass grown and thus cows per unit area. Some ends in groundwater and a lot can end up in streams and rivers too.