Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters

1. Contaminating food with semiconductors (especially food that's expected to be heated to very high temperatures in some dishes, perfect for breaking down already non-edible chemicals into even more reactive pollutants and then actively drawing them out of the semiconductor to where it's more readily absorbed by the intestines.) Look up some of the chemicals used to create the semiconductor effect in silicon. Arsenic is a really common one. It's locked away in the silicon crystal and harmless when outside your body, but inside your body when exposed to the heat of cooking and then strong acid in your stomach, who knows?!
2. Making your own product worse to own the counterfeiters. One of the biggest reasons for avoiding counterfeit food is the higher risk of contaminants, well now that the genuine product is contaminated what's the goddamn point?
3. Probably not preventing counterfeiters as in "they're selling a block of flour and passing it off as cheese", because you don't need a chip to detect that. More like "it didn't come from this very specific region in Italy by the established cheese monopoly, but it's pretty much identical otherwise." Protecting the brand and its profitability, not the consumer.
4. Literal fucking food DRM. Remember when this used to be satire?

Related: The EU is super anal about names and designations. Remember when they tried to ban plant based meat patties from being called "hamburgers?" Even though the word hamburger is literally German for "of/from Hamburg," in reference to its claimed birthplace, and nothing about the word implies that it has meat in it (English speakers sometimes think it's referencing ham). This is 100% not to protect consumers or the environment but to protect businesses. If they gave a shit about who they claim to protect they would be going the complete other way, promoting and normalizing plant based alternatives to animal products.

Same with plant based milks IIRC. It's not even enough for them that they're called "soy milk" or "oat milk" or something even though the usage of the word in that way has been in the common vernacular for ages. Only nipple juice shall be bestowed the title of milk in these fair kingdoms! Seriously, do they think consumers can't tell the difference when it's already spelled out for them on the packaging and plant based food producers actively promote the plant based aspect as a selling point? They think people are too dumb to read the huge bold text that literally say "plant based" or "vegan" right next to the product noun?

The Australian

"Well can it fit down your gullet hole! Yes. So what's the problem? It's by definition edible, as in able to be eaten." - Cheese exec.

Everything is edible, but some things just once.

That's what I'm wondering.

What's the point of a microchip in a vaccine when you've got a tracking device, voice recorder, video recorder, etc on or near you 24/7? Those vaccines weren't free, we paid for them indirectly.

There are so many layers to unravel before many people will trust pharmaceutical companies. It doesn't help that Marxists (naturally the most charismatic and wise advocates, so well respected in communities and likely to be listened to) are usually the ones most critical of bourgeois governments and big pharma.

I have a rather low opinion of anti vaxxers but like you, I don't hate them; we can't hate them until they've ignored us after we've instigated a system of revolutionary education. But to blame them personally in the meantime? I don't see many revolutionaries rolling out educational programs nowadays. Not near me at least. I don't have stats but most of the anti vaxxers I know (it's unfortunately quite a few) are not well educated.

Nah antivaxxers are just dumbos.

the counterfeit parmigiano is a serious issue, because you will get a cheese with a very low quality, with a milk that is not in a controlled supply chain from Emilia Romagna

The horror

No matter the quality, it's still just fermented rape juice and the sellers should be put through the same horrors as the cows they exploit.