For more than 2,000 years, the dairy industry has seen an incredible amount of creativity and modernization. From fermenting and processing to consuming dairy products, innovations have given rise to an industry that’s now worth about $900 billion and projected to surpass $1 trillion by 2024.
And the innovation is welcome, especially in a world where hunger and malnutrition, food accessibility, and nutritional disparity continue to plague entire countries. But there’s another problem that’s tugging on the dairy industry and it will require a new innovation that, I believe, the dairy industry is well-suited to bring about.