Sure why not? Add to the delicious medley of microplastics and persistent organic pollutants, what could go wrong!
Thats a good way to stop people from buying your cheese 😂
Funnily enough, many Swiss believe Parmigiano-Reggiano is a counterfeit of their own, they claim even older, Sbrinz cheese.
Why can’t they just put it in the packaging and not in the cheese itself?
There is a guy on YouTube called the cheese man or something who tries out cheese making recipes. He would try to replicate some types of cheeses himself when there wasn’t a lot of information out there about them. There was one kind, can’t remember the name of it, but he made it and some company from EU had him take down the video for copyright shit. Like these people have teams just scouring the internet for any reference to their cheese to be ready to sue if anyone dares to make a cheese similar to theirs. lol. I’m sure this dudes 2 small rounds of cheese and his few “curd nerd” followers was a massive danger to their monopolization of some obscure cheese 90% of people have never heard of or will ever eat.
Related: The EU is super anal about names and designations. Remember when they tried to ban plant based meat patties from being called “hamburgers?” Even though the word hamburger is literally German for “of/from Hamburg,” in reference to its claimed birthplace, and nothing about the word implies that it has meat in it (English speakers sometimes think it’s referencing ham). This is 100% not to protect consumers or the environment but to protect businesses. If they gave a shit about who they claim to protect they would be going the complete other way, promoting and normalizing plant based alternatives to animal products.
Same with plant based milks IIRC. It’s not even enough for them that they’re called “soy milk” or “oat milk” or something even though the usage of the word in that way has been in the common vernacular for ages. Only nipple juice shall be bestowed the title of milk in these fair kingdoms! Seriously, do they think consumers can’t tell the difference when it’s already spelled out for them on the packaging and plant based food producers actively promote the plant based aspect as a selling point? They think people are too dumb to read the huge bold text that literally say “plant based” or “vegan” right next to the product noun?
I remember literal international scandal between something like 5 or 6 countries about what can be called “slivovitz” despite it’s really a common word for plum brandy.
the microchip is in the crust, so you won’t eat it, unless you eat the crust, that rarely someone does
the counterfeit parmigiano is a serious issue, because you will get a cheese with a very low quality, with a milk that is not in a controlled supply chain from Emilia Romagna
No matter the quality, it’s still just fermented rape juice and the sellers should be put through the same horrors as the cows they exploit.
it depends on the company, some of them treat decently the cattles, like in the biologico products and other small companies; Parmigiano Regiano is not a company but a type of cheese, ultimately the consumer has the choice to choose the products where animals are well treated
the counterfeit products will bypass any of those choice, that’s why a certificate origin is important
Is it well treated to rape someone and steal their baby (which will be killed) just so you can then steal their milk? Would you say that’s acceptable to do to humans?
the counterfeit parmigiano is a serious issue, because you will get a cheese with a very low quality, with a milk that is not in a controlled supply chain from Emilia Romagna
The horror
