Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are using microchips to verify the authenticity of their products and thwart scammers.

Sure why not? Add to the delicious medley of microplastics and persistent organic pollutants, what could go wrong!

  • EasyDoesIt@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    the microchip is in the crust, so you won’t eat it, unless you eat the crust, that rarely someone does

    the counterfeit parmigiano is a serious issue, because you will get a cheese with a very low quality, with a milk that is not in a controlled supply chain from Emilia Romagna

    • Pili@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 years ago

      No matter the quality, it’s still just fermented rape juice and the sellers should be put through the same horrors as the cows they exploit.

      • EasyDoesIt@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        it depends on the company, some of them treat decently the cattles, like in the biologico products and other small companies; Parmigiano Regiano is not a company but a type of cheese, ultimately the consumer has the choice to choose the products where animals are well treated

        the counterfeit products will bypass any of those choice, that’s why a certificate origin is important

        • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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          3 years ago

          Is it well treated to rape someone and steal their baby (which will be killed) just so you can then steal their milk? Would you say that’s acceptable to do to humans?

  • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    This is why I don’t hate on most anti-vaxxers. Most either don’t trust vaccines because they don’t trust the US government to give them free vaccines when they normally get fucked on healthcare everywhere else or because of microchips in the vaccine which was always possible

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 years ago

      There are so many layers to unravel before many people will trust pharmaceutical companies. It doesn’t help that Marxists (naturally the most charismatic and wise advocates, so well respected in communities and likely to be listened to) are usually the ones most critical of bourgeois governments and big pharma.

      I have a rather low opinion of anti vaxxers but like you, I don’t hate them; we can’t hate them until they’ve ignored us after we’ve instigated a system of revolutionary education. But to blame them personally in the meantime? I don’t see many revolutionaries rolling out educational programs nowadays. Not near me at least. I don’t have stats but most of the anti vaxxers I know (it’s unfortunately quite a few) are not well educated.

      • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 years ago

        I’ve meet fucking antivaxxers nurses. I, forever, won’t understand the logic of them or lack thereof

        • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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          3 years ago

          The mind boggles. I remember the start of the pandemic hearing people say so and so is a nurse and she says Covid is nothing to worry about. What a ****. Maybe I do hate them—these ‘medical professionals’ got people killed by their refusal to investigate and by their hubris. Society is riddled with people who are entirely unconcerned with conspiracy for gross negligence.

          • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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            3 years ago

            There are some legitimate medical professionals but they are also bound by the capitalist who would provide funding for the research

  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    This is such a beautiful piece of news. Beautiful the way a hurricane is beautiful. Such a perfect combination of everything wrong

    • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 years ago

      1. Contaminating food with semiconductors (especially food that’s expected to be heated to very high temperatures in some dishes, perfect for breaking down already non-edible chemicals into even more reactive pollutants and then actively drawing them out of the semiconductor to where it’s more readily absorbed by the intestines.) Look up some of the chemicals used to create the semiconductor effect in silicon. Arsenic is a really common one. It’s locked away in the silicon crystal and harmless when outside your body, but inside your body when exposed to the heat of cooking and then strong acid in your stomach, who knows?!

      2. Making your own product worse to own the counterfeiters. One of the biggest reasons for avoiding counterfeit food is the higher risk of contaminants, well now that the genuine product is contaminated what’s the goddamn point?

      3. Probably not preventing counterfeiters as in “they’re selling a block of flour and passing it off as cheese”, because you don’t need a chip to detect that. More like “it didn’t come from this very specific region in Italy by the established cheese monopoly, but it’s pretty much identical otherwise.” Protecting the brand and its profitability, not the consumer.

      4. Literal fucking food DRM. Remember when this used to be satire?