In this highly anticipated second installment about dairy versus non-dairy milk, I’m diving into many of the ethical concerns and questions you’ve probably wondered about. While I have tried my best to share information without too much emotion involved, I admit that I find the treatment of workers to be difficult to stomach + tolerate. Since you already know what my biases are from Part 1, we’ll dive into the nutrition between options as well as additives, heavy metals, pesticides, environmental impacts, water use, and worker + animal abuse. I realize that there’s a ton of information presented here and you might be tempted to say that I only am sharing a fragment of the issue. To appropriately cover each one of these topics would involve individual longer conversations. So if something in this really interests you, I have placed the references at the end of the post so you can easily review them further for yourself. And I encourage you to do more research even beyond this since ultimately that’s how one makes a truly informed choice. With that said, let’s dive in! In this episode: Nutrition content in dairy vs plant-based milk Additive ingredients commonly found in vegan dairy Biggest offender for high arsenic Pesticide + glyphosate exposure – wow! Environmental impact + Carbon footprint Water use – Dairy vs Plant-based crops Is plant-based milk really cruelty-free? Animal abuse concerns Quotes: There is just no way for plant-based milk to match animal dairy unless they are fortified. Cashew production often results in painful, caustic, permanent burns to the workers’ hands.