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a quarter of us now consider ourselves “meat reducers”. In October, a major study on our food system published in the journal Nature advised that prosperous countries such as Britain and the US should cut their milk consumption by 60% (and beef intake by 90%). In most commercial dairies, calves are taken away from their mothers soon after birth; organic farms are required to keep them together for a minimum of 24 hours. On the most intensive dairies, cows will be milked three times a day. In these industrial facilities many cows don’t survive to the age of five. In the UK, some estimates suggest that dairy consumption has fallen by 30% in the past two decades. While over-65s were found to drink milk 875 times a year, young people (aged five to 24) only did so on 275 occasions.
