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Are they really trying to combat counterfeiters, or are they trying to permanently tag & geolocate all their cheese enthusiasts?
That only increases the barrier for entry into the market, but doesn't make it impossible to counterfeit.
The only time such a scheme would work is if the cost of counterfeiting the tags is higher than the cost of turning a counterfeit operation into a legitimate one.
And even then, it'd be better to use hologram seals on packaging or embedded into the cheese crust instead of "edible RFID". Most crusts aren't even edible so it seems more like a gimmick than anything else.
So: more sinister explanations acrually hold more weight here.