Cause of Lake Champlain pollution? Cows. Cause of CO2 emissions? Yep - cows. Cows. Solution: hamburger, hold the cheese.

"The diverse voices offered competing visions for dairy’s future in Vermont. Leicester resident James Maroney has long argued that conventional dairy is killing the lake, even as fewer people buy milk. Maroney says the state’s political leaders need to acknowledge what he frames as this inconvenient truth. “How can an industry that reliably loses $100 million from operations every year, and bleeds the taxpayers for support, be the backbone of our rural economy?” he asked."

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