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Sacré Bleu! Cheese enthusiasts are mourning the possible extinction of brie cheese (www.salon.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Many signature French cheeses currently rely on just one single fragile strain of fungi — Penicillium camemberti — which is unfortunately at risk of dying out.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/12041593

Countless fans took to social media to share ways they're enjoying brie before the cheese is gone for good

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If only we cared for the REST OF THE FUCKING PLANET.

the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I would rather have cheese than have the earth.