Eat This Before You Die: BRIE DE MEAUX
In early April I traveled to Paris and then took the train down South with my sister to visit my father, who still lives there.
The red-faced, fifth generation maker and seller of Brie de Meaux cheese at the Richard Lenoir market told us that since the new European Union rules have been enforced, he doesn’t make butter any more. They won’t let him touch it, even with gloves.
He has waged legal battles over the right to make raw milk brie for export, but said he was tired, that their lawyers were too good, and he was throwing in the towel.
The demands for a product that is entirely homogenous and inert, from behemoths such as the EU and the US, win. He is quitting doing what he loves.
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It is the poor truth, that the EU sets new rules for the foodindustry. So far the problem is that they set the same rules for Hungary and Germany. While Germanys wealthy level is average and the farmers got lots of hightech-machines in hungary many farmers still grow plant with their hands.
So many rules find a lot of critics in diffenrent countries. So far ... more >