There are regulation for cheese (and many other food related products) by the EU but if you read them they are often around food safety/transportation and make sense. (and are often significantly more restrictive wrt to (artificial) additives.) People tend to complain about regulations until they get sick from unsafe food
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My dad had a doctorate in dairy science from Wisconsin … he was very safety conscious (I remember him pouring out a gallon of delicious non-pasteurized non-homogenized milk that his aunt gave him from their dairy farm after we were down the road a bit … he often complained about “off flavors” in cheese and sausages - until he spent time in Europe and had a chance to experience the range of wonderful cheeses available including those made with raw milk. There is always a potential for issues with raw milk and non-industrial cheeses, but the best are more interesting than what can be very good industrial products. As in the US industries in the EU have a big voice in framing regulation to their advantage…but more so there with no elected legislature. I am not arguing against safety regulation only noting that it tends to favor large organizations over artisanal producers and venders.
Where is no elected legislature in Europe ?
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Sorry, there’s far too much ill informed stuff to take the comments seriously.
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The EU has an elected legislature. The system of governance of the Union is quite similar to that in the States, in making a clear distinction between the legislature and the executive. That constitutional distinction isnt always as clear cut in the nation states (or in the UK).
During Covid, and for some time after, I bought specialist farmhouse cheese from a retailer & wholesaler in London, through its website. It would arrive by overnight delivery - not by a refrigerated van and only packed in a cardboard box with a couple of ice blocks. I am surprised that a retailer in the north of Scotland did not have suitable business arrangements with its supplier in Glasgow for it to deliver the products. The more I think of it, the more I conclude that the retailer may well have blamed the EU when, in actuality, the lack of supply was down to another reason. It would not be the first time the Union was blamed for a fiction - our one-time Prime Minister (Johnson) previously built a journalistic career on such fictions.
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