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For fucks sake... This is literally about an RFID sticker that is put on the outside of whole cheese wheels.
So unless you buy whole 40kg wheel and then eat it with the rind... you are not eating any.
And also fuck that article for even mentioning that.
That makes it sound like the "edible" aspect of this is just an anti idiot feature. *Or just "printed" on it.
Either way, pointless article.
I believe regulations require that everything you put in or on food is technically editable. Like the paper stickers on bread or produce. They are disgusting, but if you or your child accidentally eats them, they are fine.
Alex Jones will yell about the headline and say Soros is microchipping food and if you eat cheese the 5g vaccine will do a false flag and turn the frogs even gayer.
I mean the top comment here didn’t even read the article to find out there’s no risk of them ingesting it unless it’s done on purpose after they purchase the entire wheel, they just read the headline and implied what it suggested without actually learning the full truth.
Alex Jones makes money on being a walking, talking “clickbait headline”. And people are so addicted to the dopamine they get from feeling “smarter” than other people (after being dumb all their lives because the American school system has been designed to fail them) that they huff his words like a drug.
Smug superiority is addictive.
unless you buy whole 40kg wheel and then eat it with the rind
Haha no of course not...
lol right? I would never lol, that would be like, too much? Would it be too much? Honestly we may never know
To save you a click (although none of the other commenters seem to have read the article anyway): The microchips aren't embedded into the actual cheese that you eat, but are part of the label attached to the outside rind. Nobody will be eating microchips.
The chips use blockchain technology and trace the wheel of cheese back to where the milk that was used came from.
Cryptobros, Unite! We finally found a way for blockchain tech to be relevant for more than just ransomware! We authenticate cheese!
Someone's gonna make a ton of money on CheeseCoin
Blockchain is also good for solving the Ship of Theseus problem. You can encode the entire history of the object into the object.
Blockchain has many cool uses and none of them are currency.
Blockchain =/= crypto
Crypto uses blockchain, but blockchain is just a different type of database that generally tracks data through a decentralized network. It has a lot of real uses beyond crypto like identity verification, transcript/records management management, and iot data sharing. It’s nothing that can’t be done in a centralized manner, it’s just a different way of going about it that, in some cases, is much more secure and/or much more easily accessible.
It’s nothing that can’t be done in a centralized manner,
and thats the main problem with basically all blockchain related solutions, theres pretty much always a centralized alternative thats more efficient
I don't know, can you make a JPEG of the cheese wheel and then put the hyperlink on the blockchain? Maybe make it so I can import the cheese in a shitty MMO that nobody actually wants to play?
If I run low on health and have to eat several dozen cheese wheels, will the authentic DRM ones provide a greater HP boost compared to the generic cheese wheels?
Actually an "HP boost" refers to using fake Hewlett-Packard ink cartridges that circumvent their ink-jet printer DRM. 😁
Maybe I’m a picker eater, but I think I’d rather have an inauthentic product than eating a microchip.
Hey, don't knock it till you try it
as other people pointed out, is a sticker on the outside, on the hard part.
unless you are very hungry and have good teeth, you will not eat it.
yet, since is applied on edible product, it needs to be edible.
Nothing enhances that Mediterranean flavor quite like micro plastics
Not really putting them "into" their cheese, just the labels that bind with their outer casing of the cheese wheel. Still neat.
They are being placed on the casein label, a food-safe label commonly used in cheese production, which is placed on the cheese wheel.
The conspiracy theorists are going to run wild with this one.
That’s because makers of Parmigiano-Reggiano are implanting microchips into the casings of their 90-pound cheese wheels as the latest move to ward off counterfeiters, The Wall Street Journal reported.
If it's just going in the casings, then it wouldn't be eaten I guess?
Except for counterfeiters. They eat the whole thing to make sure their copies are accurate but now we can track their poops. I'm telling you, Mario, this thing is genius!
I guess in that case I should probably seek out the counterfeit versions of it since they're now apparently better than the originals.
Lol, cheese DRM. Just when I thought more DRM was impossible.
If I can make cheese good enough to pretend that it's another brand, I'm gonna just slap my own label on it
Hold up...
There is counterfeit cheese?
It's not Parmigiana-Reggiano if it doesn't come from the Parmigiana-Reggiano region of France. Everything else is just sparkling cheese.
And olive oil and cigarettes and... Anything else really.
Why are they not using those nanotech microchip trackers that are small enough to fit in a vaccine, and that can communicate with a satellite without any need for a radio or battery?
Those chips are only good for mind control
The cheese is ruined when they make it magnetic, of course
if people who is eating them cant tell the difference than whats the point
Probably to protect the "brand" at places that actually care about advertising what kind of cheese they have
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The next time you dig into a bowl of pasta with freshly grated parmesan, you could accidentally be eating a microchip.
That's because makers of Parmigiano-Reggiano are implanting microchips into the casings of their 90-pound cheese wheels as the latest move to ward off counterfeiters, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Parmigiano-Reggiano must be made in a particular area of northern Italy's Emilia Romagna region and with specific production standards and techniques.
The microchip can then be scanned to pull up a unique serial ID that buyers can use to ensure they've got the real thing.
"We keep fighting with new methods," Alberto Pecorari, whose job is to protect the product's authenticity for a group that represents Parmigiano makers, told the Journal.
Parmigiano-Reggiano is among the many food products that are formally protected in the European Union, including Champagne from France and Feta from Greece.
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TIL there's a global market in fake cheese. Which is to say, real cheese that someone slapped a fancier label on.
I'm sure all the steps we took to reach this point were logical ones, but we still find ourselves in a very strange place.
The microchips aren’t edible because they want you to eat them. They’re edible because they know some idiot eventually will eat one.
Now I want to try it... 🤤
So if you eat the chip, does it mean you officially become a wheel of cheese?
I knew this was how Bill Gates would get us. Through our spaghetti and meatballs.
