dairying

In my country, a massive move to dairying has corresponded to a massive increase in eutrophication.

It's too bad, because dairying fit in well on farms with land that was not good for plowing and cropping.

It's not a huge amount of income, but it's a lot less work than dairying.

But let's not discuss the environmental cost a massive switch to dairying has inflicted.

Happens any time the prices of potatoes drops significantly (joys of dairying in Idaho).

At this point, there are only about a dozen families on the island that stay there and continue doing the guiding/dairying lifestyle that is traditional year-round.

For example, other countries have tried to replicate American dairying culture, buying into the propaganda put out by the dairy industry that milk drinking is the secret to America's success.

In other areas, such as the midwest, poor or swampy land that was used for dairy farming pastures is no longer needed, since dairying is now concentrated in fewer huge herds.

Anyway, I just used dairying as an example.

If you absolutely insist on dairy though, the genes for lactase persistence post-date dairying by a few millennia and many people who rely primarily on dairy today still lack the genes, like most Mongolians.

It's likely a bit different in dairying than it would be for something like vegetable production - I don't have lots of repetitive, low-skill tasks (sorry, vegetable farming people!) like weeding or harvesting that I could safely unleash untrained people upon.

I would move back in a heartbeat but I would be taking a >50% pay cut and the country is now very sadly a worse place to live than when I left five years ago, with increasing poverty, homelessness, trashed environment from dairying, run down health system just scraping by, and an ignored education system.

The "get big or get out" Holsteins of conventional dairying will produce themselves to death.

As author rightly mentioned "Agriculture-plus-dairying became the backbone", in Indian civilization, it has been imbibed in culture that they both go hand in hand.

“There’s an intense control of microbes inside and outside their bodies that enables them to have a dairying culture.” >That disconnect between dairy and DNA isn’t limited to Mongolia.

Among many interesting conclusions drawn in the study: "Notably, we found that dairy consumption was evident among individuals lacking Anatolian ancestry, such as PG200133, demonstrating that the adoption of dairying by North Caucasian transitional foragers was already underway during the late fifth millennium BC, which precedes Yamnaya expansions by a millennium."