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Average vegetarian
Guilty as charged. I would absolutely devour that wheel.
My daughter would too, but she's lactose intolerant. She still eats cheese, but not as much as she would if she wasn't.
Original Parmesan cheese is lactose free after 12 months of seasoning (good ones are generally 24-48 months). The one in the picture says 2012, so it's safe to assume that your daughter can eat the whole wheel and not be affected by the lactose intolerance at all!
Most hard cheeses don't have much lactose
I know, I have that genetic flaw too, I just don't let it slow my cheese consumption. I do like the hard cheeses for that reason though.
She's a cheese-ist! Get her!
I was sad to learn Parmesan isn't vegetarian :(
I was wondering why:
Calf rennet is used, which comes from the stomach of slaughtered calves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet
The dairy industry and the meat industry are two sides of the same coin.
Hope they use the same ones they did for veal.
They use the ones that are culled for making milk. Bunch of male calves that the dairy industry has no use for. They're not raised for meat because they're not as cost effective to feed as beef cattle. Gotta keep getting the cow pregnant to keep making milk.
the vast majority of make calves are brought to full weight before slaughter.
It's kind of funny, having the calves slaughtered to get the milk that is naturally meant for them is considered vegetarian (as long as you personally don't eat the veal).
If they're kept on abusive factory farms, that's still vegetarian.
When the dairy cows gets their throats slit because milk production drops below profitablity after ~5 years, the milk is still seen as vegetarian (as long as someone else buys the meat).
No matter how much death and suffering takes place at the farm, the milk is seen as vegetarian. But at rennet, that's where they draw the line.
Oof, thanks for this.
True! Forgot about that