Would you consider eating cheese from a small local farm if you could see the quality of life given to the cows was very high?
I am a full vegetarian and transitioning vegan. I've found it very easy to give up milk, yoghurt and eggs, but cheese is the one food type I still trip up on occasionally.
There are a number of very small private farms nearby who make their own cheese. They do not sell to supermarkets and do not produce cheese on a mass scale - more as a product to sell alongside jams, free range eggs, compost etc in their small farm shops. I have been thinking of visiting them (unannounced) and asking if they would talk to me about their cheese making processes and allow me to see where the cows graze and are housed.
If you could see that the cows spent most of their days freely grazing, were permitted to keep their young, were not sold for meat when no longer fertile and spent comparatively little time being milked, would this satisfy you from a welfare perspective?
I am fully prepared to struggle to meet all of these criteria. Particularly keeping their young (if male).