{"id":12021,"date":"2014-07-18T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=12021"},"modified":"2014-07-17T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:53:31","slug":"hypocrisy-in-eu-cheese-name-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hypocrisy-in-eu-cheese-name-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy in the EU Cheese Name Debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"\/blog\/cheese-name-debates-us-eu\" target=\"_blank\">debate<\/a> over international utilization of European cheese names surges on, Michael Punke, the U.S. deputy trade representative and the ambassador to the World Trade Organization, recently pointed out a&nbsp;flaw in the European argument. In case you need a refresher, when the United States e<span style=\"color: #666666;\">ntered into free trade agreement-related discussions several months ago with the European Union, there was significant uproar over European proposals to eliminate usage of certain cheese-identifying terms in the States &#8212; terms like \u201cBrie,\u201d which Americans use liberally to refer to any soft-ripened cheese, \u201cGouda\u201d to identify all sorts of hard or semi-hard cheese\/cheese products, and \u201cParmesan\u201d to refer to the grated stuff in the can. While there&nbsp;were many Americans that agreed with the EU (we were definitely on board when it came to shakable &#8220;parmesan&#8221;), it turns out the Europeans themselves may not be using their cheese names as they&#8217;d like folks in the US to.&nbsp;<\/span>During a trade hearing this past&nbsp;Wednesday, Ron Kind, a Democratic Representative from Wisconsin, asked&nbsp;Michael Punke whether geographic indicators &#8212; the name of a product connected with a specific place &#8212; would be a deal-breaker in considering the trade deal with the EU.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/in-the-loop\/wp\/2014\/07\/17\/in-e-u-claims-about-cheese-names-a-whiff-of-hypocrisy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Punke replied with<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;&#8220;&#8230;This will be of interest to you, I think, congressman, and that is I\u2019ve discovered the phenomena of something called German feta cheese. And I\u2019ve also discovered the phenomena of something called French Gruyere. And I\u2019m not an expert on cheese the way that people from your state might be, but I do know that Gruyere is not in France. And so that\u2019s the type of anomaly that we\u2019re pointing out to our European colleagues in trying to address this issue of geographic indications in the context.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/french-cheesemakers-allowed-to-use-name-1478717\" target=\"_blank\">In 2012, Switzerland allowed France to use the title of Gruyer<\/a>e, under a few conditions. French Gruyere must have holes in the cheese between the size of a pea and a cherry in order to distinguish it from the classic, centuries-old <a href=\"\/cheese-library\/Gruyre-Switzerland\" target=\"_blank\">Swiss Gruyere<\/a>.&nbsp;As the debate continues, perhaps Europe will be as flexible with the United States as it&nbsp;has been with its&nbsp;own countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #666666;\">Photo by&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic; color: #d9531e;\" href=\"http:\/\/wellpreserved.ca\/homemade-dried-parmesan-cheese-dehydrated\/\" target=\"_blank\">Well Preserved<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German feta? French Gruyere? 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