Calls for Mexico’s cheesemakers to stay using the name are threatening a modern trade deal between Latin American country and the EUThe producers of Spain’s renowned manchego cheese have accused their Mexican counterparts of “crude plagiarism” in a row that is holding back a modern trade deal between the EU and Mexico.“We have to defend our manchego tooth and nail,” says Francisco Tejado, walking through the factory of Spain’s biggest cheese producer, or Garcia Baquero,located in the arid plains of La Mancha, the region famed for the cheese.
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Source: guardian.co.uk