Rules & Health
Sustainability and Animal Welfare
Sustainability and animal welfare raise questions that begin on the farm and continue through cheesemaking, packaging and the choices we make at home. This hub brings those questions together, with a reading route from the broad picture to individual subjects you may want to understand more closely.
Start here
Sustainability in Cheese: The Complete Guide
At the cheese vat, curd parts company with liquid whey.
Cheese and Climate: Methane and Emissions
A cow belches.
What Happens to the Whey?
Watch the liquid drain from a cheese vat.
Animal Welfare in Dairy
A calf is born, and its first feed cannot wait.
Biodiversity, Pasture and Rare Breeds
Flowers open between the grass stems.
Cheese Packaging and Waste
You unwrap a wedge of cheese, and there it is: a thin film ready for the bin.
Organic and Biodynamic Cheese
Picture cow horns filled with manure, rather than a wheel waiting to be cut.