All out for True Camembert!

[gordonzola]

Spread the word, help save the curd!

A protest is planned for Saturday 27 October, 2.30pm, Argentan, France. (190km west of Paris)

Comité de Défense du véritable Camembert

Why the protest?

Two of France's largest dairy producers, Lactalis and the Isigny Sainte-Mère cooperative, which together made 90 percent of the traditional raw-milk Camembert in Normandy, began this year to treat the milk used for most of those cheeses. In doing so, they had to sacrifice their AOC status, the first time in French history that Camembert producers voluntarily did so. But they also have asked the French government's food board to grant that status to their new Camembert’s, arguing that pasteurising (or in this case, thermalizing -G) the milk does not sacrifice the traditional taste and character of the cheese. A group of retired cheesemakers and local businessmen created Comité de Défense du véritable Camembert. It has circulated a petition to protect the AOC rules for Camembert.

Protest poster here

Thanks to Cheesy Curd Nerd for this info!

Comments

[dirtylibrarian.livejournal.com]

Finally! A cheese post.

[walktheplank.livejournal.com]

I know that this is blasphemy, but the concept of raw milk cheeses sort of disgusts me.

[zeppo.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday to the cheesiest bastard I know... well electronically anyway.
Have a great day!

CamemBert & CamemErnie

[thewolfteen.livejournal.com]

What about the fact that Camembert, as we know it today, only came to exist after the AOC started back in the 20s? Pre-WWI, Camembert had a gnarly, muticolored bloom and was really stinky and, to quote Monty Python, was excrementally runny. If the French want to be so, well, French about the whole thing, they should protest Camembert's refinement into the bleached-white, sterile little disks it has become.