how anyone could govern a country with 258 kinds of cheese — and that task has now only gotten harder in the coronavirus crisis as the nation's topthat restaurant closures and a downturn in international trade have caused a 60 percent slump in sales of cheeses from Camembert to Roquefort.
Cheesemakers are looking at desperate measures, ranging from destroying tons of luxury stock to derogations from the strict rules normally required to win a protected gourmet label.“Today it’s the France of 1,000 cheeses that is being threatened,” he said, adding that smaller operators were economically fragile.the industry, as the drop in demand for high-value cheeses led farmers to create a glut of more storable dairy products such as butter and milk powder.
But instead, some farmers want the EU to pay them to reduce production, arguing that stockpiling cheese will only delay the oversupply problem, until it floods back onto the market, keeping prices low. The European Milk Board lobby, whose president, Erwin Schöpges, described the EU's storage measures as "wrong," will coordinate protests in eight EU countries, including France and Belgium, by dumping milk powder in fields Thursday.
“We have innumerable examples that the storage of milk doesn’t work,” he said, adding that he’ll be spreading milk powder across one of his fields with his wife and son.
I wish I could get some of that yummy cheese.
Oh dear never mind British cheese it is lovely cheddar , Cornish brie , Wensleydale , Caerphilly , red Leicester, stilton, Dorset blue , Shropshire blue, Cornish yarg , Cheshire cheese to name a few don't think I'll starve buy British thought the EU could said it cope without us?
Well, that stinks.