Scholars theorize that humanity’s “discovery” of fermented dairy products thousands of years ago played a key role in our survival as a species. Alexandra looks at the essential role cheese played in human history; how climate change has affected agriculture, dairying, and cheesemaking since the Neolithic period; and how the emergence of European settler colonialism and capitalism set the stage for the climate crisis. Featuring dairy scientist and historian Paul Kindstedt.
How did we get to a point in human history where food production could become one of the main drivers of an existential crisis for our planet? Scholars theorize that humanity’s “discovery” of fermented dairy products thousands of years ago played a key role in our survival as a species. Alexandra looks at the essential role cheese played in human history; how climate change has affected agriculture, dairying, and cheesemaking since the Neolithic period; and how the emergence of European settler colonialism and capitalism set the stage for the climate crisis. Featuring dairy scientist and historian Paul Kindstedt.
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