Some indications are emerging of what the US side wants from a UK/US trade deal, once B*****t is eventually “done”. But with fearsome negotiator Liz Truss promising to “drive a hard bargain”, US business lobbyists surely know that they need to keep British cheese off the table. Anything less would be a disgrace.
However in an unwelcome development, British cheese exports are already being “bludgeoned” as part of the ongoing EU/US trade war. This sounds potentially messy, especially for something like Stilton. However the firm rind of a mature Cheddar should give it more ballistic tolerance, as we can see in this front line photo of some defence works. Encouraging to see that Wired UK seems to have a broader definition of ‘technology’ these days.
And on another front, a potentially existential threat is emerging from award-winning US artisan cheese. As with many modern conflicts, the position is complex, with a number of factions and shifting loyalties. Even within the USA, this has escalated as far as a war on artisan cheese led by the FDA.
Some of the allegedly cheese-based aerosols etc described in the Wired article sound very dubious from a CBW perspective, so this could end up at The Hague rather than the WTO.
