Cheesemaking uses even more dairy than it being in liquid form. Varies depending on what you’re looking at but it can be around a 10:1 ratio. Butter from dairy milk has an even worse conversion
Have to make up for the lost water when turning it into a solid and other stuff you strip from the milk and that’s going to be from even more dairy going into it
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I predict goat and sheep cheese is better than cow cheese in emissions, but is it about the same 10:1 ratio for output?
Whattochoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why would it be better? It is a smaller animal and also ruminants, which is the important factors. Most likely worse than cattle.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Uhh, Mostly because the graph already shows lamb and mutton to be half the impact as beef.
Whattochoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s a good point. I looked it up to double check and found the article from BBC “What is the lowest-carbon protein? from 13 January 2025”. According to that article cattle is extra bad compared to sheep/lamb because of the extra land use. But when it comes to cheeses and milk from cattle or sheep it equalizes, because cows produces so much more milk per animal compared to sheeps.