Cheeses like Brie, Camembert, and Roquefort are in trouble. Even though cheese making is an ancient cottage industry going back millennia, modern industrial processes needed fungal spores that would produce consistent results. By constantly selecting for similar taste, texture, maturation time, and color, they accidentally stumbled upon several strains of fungus that don’t reproduce sexually.
But now, a century later, these strains are falling apart.
This new development interacts with the creation and evolution debate in several interesting ways…
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