You may not like US beef, and you don't have to eat it, and you're probably well off enough that you get to make that choice. Protecting a domestic cheese production probably doesn't increase food availability for the poor - nor is that domestic cheese production some health food.
And those advocating are usually those "well enough" that don't have to suffer the "food for the poor" themselves.
>Protecting a domestic cheese production probably doesn't increase food availability for the poor - nor is that domestic cheese production some health food.
As part of the typical French diet, as is its use in France (and Europe), it's much healthier than the kind of crap passed for food to the poor in the US, or the fads peddled year after year as some "miracle food" to richer consumers (quinoa, chia, kale, and such).
How dare customers want to have access to healthy AND cheap food. They don't get to chose both!
And what's with the wages "race to the bottom" ensuring everybody will only be able to get cheap food - if at all?
>France didn't want to import US Beef (fair), the US threatened to not import French cheese in retaliation (seemingly also rather fair).
Yes, fair as well. So?
(Although one is a crappy, unhealthy beef grown in abhorrent conditions, the other is high quality cheese).