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I can't live without cheese.
you can still reduce your harm to animals by making sure to avoid cheese from factory-farmed cows. Those animals face some astonishing suffering, like living in a Saw movie. Plus, it seems plausible that animal's subjective experience of extreme pain is the same as a human's.
I very much try.
"Happy cows come from California" is such a crock of shit. I've called the ASPCA on several dairies I ended up servicing through various jobs I have had because I know what the laws here requires to count these as humane, and these farms were not even trying. Shit, one of them was producing veal and those calfs were kept in cages I would not even use to crate my chipoo they were so small.
I have yet to try any vegan cheese, tho. I haven't seen any at my grocery stores but I am hella curious if it's good. One brand controversially won, and was disqualified from, a cheese taste contest (disqualified for not being dairy) so that seems like a good sign to me that it's actually good.
I've never had vegan cheese that emulates cheese. Though some vegan cheeses are decent in their own right, but only if they are not really trying to be cheese. (I wish they'd rebrand as more generic spreads.)