Milk tales

More and more people have problems digesting and consuming dairy products, so the demand for alternative milks to traditional cow's milk, such as lactose-free milk, a2a2 milk, oat milk, almond milk, etc. is booming. On the other hand, the boom in the consumption of vegetable milks also has to do with the fact that cows, during their own digestive process, emit a lot of methane, one of the gases responsible for global warming.

The productive territories are trying to adapt to these new demands, but they are also suffering from indigestion, albeit of a different nature. Theirs is not physiological, but rather metaphorical: an indigestion that has to do with the impact of climate change on the primary sector and the lack of understanding of certain environmentalism and society in general with ways of life that are not only on the verge of extinction and have nothing to do with large agribusiness, but are also potential allies in the fight against climate change and the biodiversity crisis.

In the region of A Ulloa (Lugo), in addition to the problems suffered by the countryside in many other places, there is a threat: the possibility that the company Altri-Greenalia installs in its territory a macrocellulose plant that would require a huge volume of water, eucalyptus trees and land and would emit both wastewater and a multitude of polluting gases. In addition to the serious consequences that this project would have on human health and the ecosystem, the Altri plant would compete in resources with the main sector of the area: agriculture and livestock, endangering the viability of the many ecological projects linked to the transformation of dairy products that exist in the region.