Luxury Cheese Heists: The Rise of Dairy Crime in Britain

A recent heist involving 22 tonnes of luxury cheese from Neal's Yard Dairy highlights a growing trend of food-related crimes, particularly targeting high-value items like cheese. The theft, dubbed "the grate cheese robbery," underscores the increasing value of cheese due to rising production costs and global food price inflation. Organized crime networks are exploiting the food industry, often smuggling stolen goods to markets with high demand, such as Russia, where sanctions have created a black market for Western foods. Efforts to combat such crimes include innovative security measures like microchipping cheese.