Why I can as soon as once more eat cheese with a transparent conscience

A FEW years in the past, I wrote a characteristic story that has turn out to be, at the very least in New Scientist circles, the quintessential instance of my function because the harbinger of doom. It was concerning the surprising environmental impression of cheese, particularly its colossal methane and carbon hoofprint. The reactions from my colleagues have been variations on “I don’t want to know”.

I’m now able to turn out to be a harbinger of excellent information. Earlier this month, I went to a convention organised by Compassion in World Farming, and others, the place I met a farmer known as David Finlay. He runs a creamery in Galloway, …