> The PDO approach impairs competition by making it impossible to legally refer to food with a name that people understand. No, because the name of the food im

> The PDO approach impairs competition by making it impossible to legally refer to food with a name that people understand. No, because the name of the food implies a tradition and a terroir, which copies wouldn't have. If you say you're selling "parmesan" while actually doing some chemical thing that tastes like it and has the same texture, people will imagine wheel of cheese, Italia, which in that case will be wrong.