Going Off Cow's Milk?

The Food Chain

• Episode: Going Off Cow's Milk?
• Website: The Food Chain
• Feed URL: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p028z2z0.rss
• Duration: 00:26:29
• Published: 2018-09-20 04:00

Emily Thomas asks whether we’re on a slow but steady path to abandoning our pervasive, long-standing, and arguably slightly peculiar habit of drinking milk from cows.

In many European countries and the US, alternative plant-based milks are growing in popularity, and cow's milk sales are declining. Is this just a blip in our millenia-old love affair with dairy, or a steady drip towards a cow's milk-free future?

Three guests debate the potential effects on global poverty, the environment and our health.

(Photo: Brown cow. Credit: Getty Images)