The $2.3 Billion Cheese War: Why the E.U. Is Trying to Ban American Parmesan Around the World

Exports are at a record high, but American cheese makers are facing down E.U. lawyers.

BY AMAYA NICHOLE, NEWS WRITER

Can Parmesan originate outside Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region? The fourth-generation cheesemakers running Wisconsin’s Sartori think so, and they have the sweet, nutty wheels of cheese to prove it.

The European Union disagrees, regardless of the Sartori family’s craft and Italian heritage. And it’s attempting to enforce its........

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