“Cheese, oh to be sure cheese is alive. Self-aware, actually, maybe not exactly the way we are, but still more than some clever simulation. We're at a pivot point in the history of food science, a strange new form of life that was deliberately invented, like Doctor Frankenstein or something--”

—snippet from the Bruno Airmont Dairy Metaphysics Symposium held annually at the Department of Cheese Studies at the UW branch in Cheboygan