Given the volatility of the global milk price and increasing fertiliser prices and interest rates, synthetic-nitrogen-driven dairying is economically and environmentally risky.

Source: https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/poor-synthetic-nitrogen-use-increases-freshwater-pollution-quality-decline

Mendelson whizzes through centuries of history as she charts the gradual spread of “dairying,” from its origins in the prehistoric Near East and Western Asia, where milk carried associations with goddesses, to its prevalence in northern Europe.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/a-fresh-history-of-lactose-intolerance