What is this, The Day Today?

Oh good reference! And now for sport with Alan Partridge.

Don't worry folks, the bank is not literally made of cheese. Their source uses a less oniony headline: https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/08/11/extreme-heat-strains-italys-cheese-banks-where-parmigiano-backs-farm-loans

Missouri Cheese

Much government cheese is stored in "Missouri cheese caves",[10] underground warehouses for storing and aging cheese in and around the Midwestern state of Missouri, part of a national network of such facilities.[11] An erroneous article by Modern Farmer began circulating on social media in 2022 implying all of the USDA's 1.5 billion pounds of cheese was stored in caves near Springfield, Missouri.[12][13]

The US has it too.

Imagine exploring some caves and just wandering into one of these vaults...

When cattle are grazing unbuildable, unfarmable land, it is a fully renewable and sustainable system. Presumably the trees are the casualty but you could just as easily argue that timber products are not sustainable.

Mountains.

Have you traveled around? The foothills have a lot of very rocky slopes and terrain. Terrace farming is extremely expensive and labor intensive. Vineyards are the only crop grown on slopes at scale, and we already have too many grapes.

I will not eat green eggs and government cheese. I will not eat it because it makes me wheeze.

A single round of Parmagiano is $2000.

Oh, so we can all eat cheese that tastes like window caulk.

Them using land is not the only thing they do.

They drink water for example, a kg of cow meat requires 1000L of water. This is not a problem everywhere, but it can be.

They eat grass and there are many places where they have the space and the climate to walk around and eat the grass that is there, but many places they need additional food. Their biggest source of protein is usually soy. Most of that soy comes from south-america: first they burn down a forest to make space, then they plant genetically modified soy. This soy is modified to be resistant to pesticides. They spray the entire plot with these chemicals, so everything dies except the soy. This stuff travels beyond the borders of the farmers land, killing local wildlife and threatening the ecosystem.

Also not all cows are treated well. A cow only gives milk after birth, so each year a cow has to be insimenated and birth a baby cow. A cow can live for decades, but their body is working so hard many won't live over 10 years.

Another problem is that cows are given hormones and antibiotics, residues of which end up in consumer meat.

I'm not writing this because I believe we should go to a 100% plant-based society, but the current system of mass-production is a lose-lose situation for everyone except for the people making a (small) profit.

Very interesting !

all eat cheese

But why do you need to eat cheese though? It’s incredibly unnecessary and only works to abuse the animals that produce it. Maybe step back and think about what you’re doing instead of assuming that “we all” need to eat cheese.

Sorry but that’s what always gets me about talking to non-vegans. Unless you’re somewhere like the Arctic Circle you’re consuming animals solely for the pleasure of taste — that’s an ugly look.

Edit: Keep downvoting you disgusting people.

More like $20k!
Haha!
Bilbo! Another round of cheese for Thorin's Dustr!

Wow I had no idea. Thanks, I’m vegan now.

Enjoy your cult, but vegan preaching is very 2005.

Make sure you tell everyone and tell them how they are supposed to live. Make sure to use a lot of fake science.

Milk isn’t sustainable.

meanwhile the article literally mentions that this business has been going on for 800 years in italy.

sure, you can even grow wheat in the desert, assuming you use enough artificial watering systems.

in fact many countries even do this.

this is egypt for example.

You could always eat window caulk directly if it's that important to you

the treatment of animals is pretty bad in a lot of modern industrial setups. that doesn't mean that all milk products are bad, though. for example, things are very different if you look at italy, compared to the US.

Can't we solve this problem like Elon would solve the problem and simply store the cheese in space?

Damn, Popular Mechanics. That pronoun usage is very grade school awful.

No, $1500-2000.

https://www.labottega.ca/products/parmigiano-reggiano-whole-wheel-approximately-35-kilograms

It was a play on words.

round - a drink of liquor apiece served at one time to each person in a group
and
the fact that dwarves are prodigiously hungry and thirsty
gives us:
They would each require their own round of cheese for a round served to the group, which is what Thorin called to be delivered to the table. Hence the price tag.

But thank you for the earnest education on delicious cheese. The pungent, well aged cheeses have always been my favorite.

Tell me you know nothing about veganism without saying it.

Only after announcing the cheese will be on Mars next year. Every year

Then what would Italy be known for without it's cheese?

I already started posting it all over NextDoor. Next I’m going to protest the meat, wool, and egg vendors at farmers market tomorrow.

Do you think the amount of cheese eaten in Italy might have increased a bit over the last 800 years?

I'm a big time nerd and your joke was too nerdy for me, that's really something!

True and inside those countries there can be big differences as well.

Honestly storing cheese in space makes more sense than putting data centers in space

Ah Italy is on the moon

so what you're saying is that it's the population density that's unsustainable? not the milk itself?

also do you have a link that it's unsustainable? because i'm not so sure about that. the world can currently produce about 2-3x the amount of food that we actually need, i don't see that declining by more than 60% any time soon.

Milk has higher environmental impact than plant based milk ≠ milk is unsustainable.

Milk is in fact a very nutritious aliment and many parts of the world depend on it as base for nutrition.

Naa I know plenty about it. As you militant vegans are all over lemmy. The joke here is that animals eat other animals....humans are no different, we're omnivores for a reason. You can act like plants can replace meat but the amount of nutrients from 4oz of meat vs 4oz of some plant is always going to be way out of proportion.

Plants require a lot of work as well. Most farms that produce meat, are not mega farms like you guys think. The majority of the farms here in the US are small operations, 1k or less head of cattle. They make up 90% of what is consumed. The cows drink, non-potable water. They eat mainly grass (you don't raise a cow on grain, shit is expensive when grass and roughage is free) and they don't require you to constantly fertilize the soil to grow something. On top of all this, the majority of what is fed to cows is grass/roughage, and then hay in the winter, which is just rolled up grass/roughage. The feed they finish cows with is non-eatable foods from plants you and I eat. Stalks, roots, stems...shit you cannot process. You think they take and just toss out the plant you're beans grow on? Hell no, it's turned into cattle feed.

So, yes I know a lot about this, because I own a farm and work closely with other farmers, who grow that plant based diet you eat... so be vegan all you want, no one is saying you can't, but don't come acting high and mighty because you don't want the rest of us to eat meat.

I want quicker access to cheese than space.

I want a cheese cave...

"Once again the investor with the cheesiest portfolio comes out on top!"

eats cheese

"Oh no! I'm ruined!"

I think I know what the players in my D&D campaign will be wandering into next. Complete with cheese golems shaped like cows.

"I try to eat the cheese golem's head."

"Roll D20 for agility check."

*natural one*

"The golem is amused as it easily pulls away before you can sink your teeth into it, all you manage to chew on is your own hand and dignity. Roll D6 for finger damage and then golem attacks."