Brexit blues wipe out UK cheese makers European business
euronews.com/amp/2021/09/17/cheesed-off-brexi...Posted Sep 18, 2021, 6:55 PM UTC
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Exports to Japan will solve this.
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Cough...Asian lactose intolerance...cough
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I was being ironic. But I think Japan is one of the world's top cheese exporters.
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exporters.
Importers.
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Correct.
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Cough.... largest cheese importer in the world (excluding intra EU trade).
https://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?commodity=cheese&graph=imports
They might eat a lower amount per capita, but there are 110m+ Japanese and their domestic production is tiny.
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I was reading that thinking "What? They import 300,000 megatonnes?!" ... Apparently MT means metric tonne.
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Sure, we can export, as long as the Euros do not use up all their quota.
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Blue cheese is low lactose. Source: lactose intolerant and my guffs.
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The Japanese love cheese toppings on their food.
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As far as I know, the UK-JP FTA allows us to pick up the scraps of the unused EU exports quota. A lot less than £1bn.
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Only soft cheeses affect those with lactose intolerance. There's almost no lactose in cheddar, for example.
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I did a quick google, and it says here there's more lactose in cheddar than mozzarella, for example:
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Mozzarella is low in lactose. Nevertheless, as a rule of thumb, harder more aged cheeses have the least lactose. Parmesan, for example, has none.
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Cathedral city and colliers welsh cheddar still make it to the Netherlands, prices up 20% though
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Is that the shop or the country
Edit: I mean what idiot would name their country after a shop, beggars belief.
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We can still get Cathedral City, but price is up and pack size is down. We are now considering buying Irish Cheddar...
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Cathedral City is owned by Saputo - they're an absolutely massive company that can ship cheese over by the lorryload and amortise the costs that way.
This article is talking about the smaller guys who aren't selling in that sort of quantity, and for them the costs simply don't scale down sufficiently.
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"Our partners in Europe have said 'I’m sorry you’re just too difficult to deal with', and they’ve abandoned us," Spurrell says.
:-(
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The only British cheesemaker that seems to have weathered the transition effectively is Wyke Farms. They’ve probably got more presence in France now than 12 months ago.
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Yup. Quite a lot of what i see is from Ireland though (was already the case before).
That might explain it: https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/dairy/wyke-farms-sets-up-eu-business-to-aid-exports-operation/652831.article
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Couple of my local fromageries have switched from English to Irish cheddar for sale by weight. Carrefour is also carrying an Irish cheddar, but has a good selection of Wyke’s too. No Stilton to be found these days.
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I'll miss the old Stilton. It was always one of my favourites over the Christmas period.
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Portugal checking in!
I went to a big supermarket last week and checked out the international cheese counter which had Union flags all over it. Not a single cheese from the UK. I can get Irish cheddar from one shop and maybe a stilton if I want to take out another mortgage but that is it.
Luckily there are hundreds of local and other European cheeses to choose from so it doesn't really matter to me but UK producers must be feeling it...
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Yay Brexit etc.
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What about uk jam exports. I think this was a ace that we were playing in the brexit negotiations if i remember correctly. Presumably jam exports are booming.
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Jam or marmalade? There's an important difference between the two.
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I guess our ruinous trade deficit with the EU is now solved then.
FFS!!!
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Shit...what's Liz Truss gonna say?
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"See ya, suckers"?
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She just said that the UK can be "hard-headed" when defending our interests. It was ostensibly about screwing France over about the subs, but I bet it was laced with feeling about all this cheese...
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World War II destroyed Cheese production in the United Kingdom. It was the 1980s before it recovered. Reminds me of a story about a Sperm Whale and a Bowl of Petunias.
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Is the situation the same for EU business exporting to the UK?
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Nope. We don’t have the capacity to check imports yet
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No we decided to Brexit so we could take back control of our borders.
So far that has meant absolutely no checks on anything coming in, because we don't have the staff or the infrastructure to actually do the checking... but we have definitely taken back control of our borders, even if it feels like the opposite is true, and that now EU companies have a massive advantage over our domestic producers because their products get waved through, and ours sit around waiting to be checked.
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THIS IS A DISGRACE!!!
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China is the biggest net importer of food. China will absolutely buy British Farms.
no point in buying British farms if there's no one to work on them. better off buying European farms where there's actually a source of labour available
The Chinese always bring their own workers. Also the food grown there will not be for the UK market.
So basically 'i just believe whatever people tell me and I don't use or engage my brain much, if at all'.
Might just go tell her that brexit meant she had to give all her cheese to me and see how it goes.
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