After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it

Really, the disqualification is probably better publicity than winning the award itself. If someone told me some vegan cheese won a "Good Food" award, I would assume it was related to eco- and social-consciousness. Learning that it was so delicious that the dairy industry schemed to take away the award tells me they're afraid of the competition.

“Our cheese is so good they had to disqualify us” would be my new slogan so fast.

I'm closer to a carnivore than a vegan, but if something is good, it's good. I'm not going to hate on something delicious because I feel threatened by someone else's life choices.

Don't worry, farmers; if I start eating vegan cheese I promise I'll make up for it in beef consumption.

Let me see if I get this right: they get disqualified for containing an ingredient that hasn't been certified as edible (kokum butter) and is usually used in cosmetics, and there is no evidence of Big Cheese being the reason for the disqualification, other than the owner of the company saying it.

But it is still Big Cheese' fault?

It was disqualified for having an ingredient that was not GRAS(generally regarded as safe). Even GRAS is a pretty low bar for food safety.

Holy shit, there's a decent vegan cheese? I like my meat but I understand that the current status quo isn't sustainable, and cheese is the number two thing the vegan industry has been struggling with making a good substitute for (number one being bacon.)

The dairy and meat lobbies are something else. It’s like smoking in the fifties.

It’s well established that there are serious health concerns when you consume animal produce (not to mention environmental and animal welfare ones), yet the industry keeps pushing back on plant-based alternatives.

Vegan blue cheese

So just the mold without the dairy? 🤔

I'm surprised, I've had all sorts of vegan cheeses and they all taste like murder

Anyone got the actual link to buy this cheese?

Big Milk will not accept any threat to their cash cow! This is outrages!

I just wanna try this cheese.

I dunno, I think I'm on the side of "it might taste great but if it's vegan it doesn't meet the definition of cheese."

The dairy industry is so pathetic.

Unbelievably shitty ragebait journalism.

The traditional cheesemaking company is freaking out (really?) about Climax Blue, especially because the vegan cheese was so delicious that it had slated (it had slated did it?) to win the overall competition

Though yes, there is a bit of controversy here, but at least the Washington Post tries to explain it in a less incredibly-biased way - https://wapo.st/3xQCcYX

So what is it called, so I can get some?

Edit: Climax Blue yes really

Look, I dislike blue cheese purely for the flavor, but I'll be damned i didn't want to try this

That is a rather clickbaity title, with some rage baity jpurnalism right there.

Can't be bought yet. Later this year they say.

Well now I want to try it lmao. Thanks for the publicity, dairy industry.

If only I could buy it.

Ugh, It's a little judgy and I actually like AI in some day-to-day search scenarios but instantly disappointed in the blue cheese company when this banner appeared across the top of their homepage. " Find out how AI is shaping the future of Food and how you can support the movement! " With links to join a mailing list.

Also, just an FYI, they aren't selling the cheese to consumers yet, it's only available in a handful of restaurants.

That's how capitalism works

I guess vegan cheese has improved a whole lot since I last tried it.

Now if only they could make a vegan hot dog that didn't taste god-awful...

Big Cheese, man, nothing to mess with.

Bro, insecure meat eaters are such pieces of shit.

They're going to get hit with the Streisand effect.

Get fucked, dairy farmers.

must've been the italians.

And before you ask, no it's not racist, they claim to be the only legitimate source of a certain type of cheese, or more, maybe idk cheese lore lmao.

When you block a community for being effing insufferable, it should block its cross-posts too.

OP's name checks out.

Ew, blue cheese.