Oliver Zahn runs an insurgent tech company named Climax that uses science to make breathtakingly good cheese using only plants. It works with chefs to produce products that are delicious without apology. Mateo Kehler had this to say about Climax, “One could make the argument that this is like a fraudulent cheese.” Kehler continued, “As a cheesemaker, it’s a fraud. It looks like a cheese. It might taste like a cheese. But it’s not. It’s not connected to our historical understanding of what cheeses are.” This is the system fighting back. Other unnamed, powerful folks in the cheese industry
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