Alex covers the last 500-odd years of cheese and climate: how settler colonialism and capitalism shaped today’s cheese industry and our contemporary climate crisis, how industrialization changed the scale of food production, the rise of alternative food movements like organics and the American artisan cheese renaissance, and recent economic and political developments in the US that are affecting efforts to protect cheesemaking traditions and slow the climate crisis. All this history sets the stage for the second half of this series, where we’ll talk about climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience for cheese production and the world at large.
Alex covers the last 500-odd years of cheese and climate: how settler colonialism and capitalism shaped today’s cheese industry and our contemporary climate crisis, how industrialization changed the scale of food production, the rise of alternative food movements like organics and the American artisan cheese renaissance, and recent economic and political developments in the US that are affecting efforts to protect cheesemaking traditions and slow the climate crisis. All this history sets the stage for the second half of this series, where we’ll talk about climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience for cheese production and the world at large.
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