Greece produces more authentic feta cheese than any other country. The cheese is so valuable, it’s nicknamed “white gold.”
But two forces are threatening Greece’s historical grip on feta. A pair of diseases has led to the death of hundreds of thousands of sheep and goats. Meanwhile, other countries, including the US, are challenging Greece’s legal claim to the name “feta” on the global stage.
So what does all this mean for generations-old producers? And what does this mean for the global supply of authentic feta?
00:00 – Intro
01:21 – How feta is made
03:27 – Original Greek feta
03:55 – The battle over authentic feta
07:07 – Disease threatens Greek feta
07:43 – Culling sheep and goats
10:09 – Drastically lower supply
12:25 – Debate over vaccination
13:29 – Farmer protests
14:33 – Struggling restaurants
16:29 – Impact of outbreak
18:17 – Credits
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Πολυ κακο.
The tomato industry is also destroyed by trash tasting plastic looking tomatoes available all over india.
That stuff’s magic. Beginning at breakfast. And the yogurt. Lord I can taste it all again.
Sounds like a Greek racket to me. The whole protected origin BS is a scam. The customer ends up paying hiked up prices for a artificially constrained product.
Sir Henry potpourri wisdom 477
Cheeses are delicious until it is your own milk which is curdling
Feta isnt a greek origin cheese, they have found evidence of it in ancient Egypt far older than any ancient greek evidence of the cheese type
Feta is a disgusting cheese
Great thing in Australia is our large Greek population & large sheep farms and they make amazing Feta
the EU, NATO and Israel need
to leave Greece…its all connected. theyre killing farmers and the land thru warfare or bureaucratic nonsense
Looks like coin clippers making some goyyyslop was too good for you cant have that haha shame
FULL SUPPORT FOR THE FARMERS.
I love sheep’s milk feta. Its incredible
Προσωπικά πιστεύω είναι το καλύτερο τυρι στον κοσμο.