This bottle of milk may have serious implications for NZ

Dr Eric Crampton
Newsroom
16 December, 2025

It tasted like a normal glass of milk.

Maybe a little bit thinner than I would have expected for the 3 percent fat content advertised on the bottle. But certainly better than other lactose-free milk I’ve tried. Normal lactose-free milk converts lactose into simpler sugars that I find too sweet. Fortunately, I can drink normal milk without problems. Others in my household aren’t so lucky.

This lactose-free milk never had the lactose in the first place, because nobody built it in. The milk had never been through a cow at all. Never touched grass, never saw a milking parlour, did not require irrigation. No cows to create methane or urine patches that leach nitrogen.  

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