▲ 54 ▼ Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 3 years ago* by HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml 43 comments fedilink hide all child comments Sure why not? Add to the delicious medley of microplastics and persistent organic pollutants, what could go wrong!
[+] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] EasyDoesIt@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 years ago i think we're shifting the focus of the main topic, that was the microchip inside the crust of the seasoned cheese, not the ethics of the cheese process, I don't even eat cheese and I don't agree with the industrial process of gathering the milk but at some point to survive you have to eat something animal, but you can choose the most ethical one, I buy the eggs of chickens of a local farmer where I can see that they can play in the grass; will I steal the human babies like I do with the eggs?, no! but I need to survive, and the vegan supplements creates more pollution and more health problems than a bunch of local eggs permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EasyDoesIt@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 years ago i think we're shifting the focus of the main topic, that was the microchip inside the crust of the seasoned cheese, not the ethics of the cheese process, I don't even eat cheese and I don't agree with the industrial process of gathering the milk but at some point to survive you have to eat something animal, but you can choose the most ethical one, I buy the eggs of chickens of a local farmer where I can see that they can play in the grass; will I steal the human babies like I do with the eggs?, no! but I need to survive, and the vegan supplements creates more pollution and more health problems than a bunch of local eggs permalink fedilink source parent