The Future of Dairy

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The Netherlands is trying to reduce nitrogen pollution by using a cow toilet. The company that develops it, called Hanscom, says that this can catch about 50% of a mature dairy cow's urine throughout the day. A poll found that around three quarters of the Dutch believe that they need to eat less meat and dairy.

Feeding the world’s growing population is an increasingly difficult challenge, and climate change won’t make it any easier. Vox’s Kenny Torrella visited the Netherlands, a small country with big ideas about the future of food, to find out more about how the country is approaching the problem.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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