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{"6BD6EF6A-4040-F985-52CD-70FAFE24894C":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"6BD6EF6A-4040-F985-52CD-70FAFE24894C","title":"Schumer at Muranda Cheese","summary":"Waterloo, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"October 23, 2013","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/schumer-at-muranda-cheese","city":null,"county":"Seneca","lat":42.87532,"lng":-76.853271,"description":"<p><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3833/10461135856_e8a69c6d4f_s.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"margin:0pt 10px 10px 0pt;width:100px;float:left\">\nOn October 23,2013   Schumer visited Muranda Cheese Company in Seneca County, joined by other Seneca County Cheese producers, to announce his two-pronged plan to first defend, and second to grow, Upstate New York cheese production. Specifically, Schumer is urging United States Trade Representative Froman and Secretary Vilsack to defend U.S. cheese producers in trade negotiations with the European Union (EU), which is staking a regional claim on common cheese names like \"asiago,\" \"gouda,\" \"muenster,\" \"provolone,\" and \"feta\"—much like champagne. Through free trade agreements with other countries, the EU is seeking to prevent cheese producers from exporting their products with these common cheese names, including exporting them with \"-style\" or \"-type\" after the name.  Schumer argued that this would be a huge hit to upstate dairy farmers all along the Finger Lakes Cheese Trail as they grow and look to export cheese and compete for new markets, and must be prevented in trade negotiations at all costs.  For example, Muranda Cheese markets styles of gouda, provolone/asiago blend cheese, and Lively Run Goat Dairy makes feta, all of which are names that are being put at risk due to EU efforts to trademark many common cheese names.</p>"}}

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