For this reason, Fundación Vegetarianos Hoy, through its “World Dairy Free Week” campaign, provides completely free advice, for seven days, to try a dairy-free diet.
Promoted in Latin America by the Fundación Vegetarianos Hoy, it is already underway. In it, you can experience a dairy-free diet, and understand the relationship between milk production and consumption and global warmingbased on internationally renowned studies and reports.
In this way, the initiative motivates, advises and accompanies, completely free of charge, those who register on its portal vegetarianoshoy.org/semanasinlacteos/inscripcion/ until August 29.
By the way, the nutritionist and coordinator of the Foundation’s Food Change, Soledad Rapimán, comments:
“Those who sign up, we will accompany them virtually with recipes, suggestions, nutritional data, and all the necessary information to try this alternative and enjoy the process.”
Damage to animals and the environment
Milk and its derivatives are among the most consumed products worldwide within those of animal origin, this according to data provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), also adding the devastating consequences for the animals and the environment.
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An example of this is that milk production implies the use and abuse of dairy cows, since they are constantly impregnated, without rest, throughout their productive lives, through artificial insemination.
By keeping them in a permanent stage of lactation, their physical exhaustion is much greater: a common cow could live up to 20 years, however, in the dairy industry they are sent to the slaughterhouse when they are just four or five years old, when their milk production decreases.
Likewise, according to data from the FAO, world dairy production represents 20% of greenhouse gas emissions from animal agriculture and about 4% of global emissions.
Therefore, given the devastating consequences of dairy production and consumption, “we invite people to be encouraged to explore this alternative for just one week, so that they can see the benefits of this diet for themselves,” concludes Rapimán.
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