You are looking at cheese!
In the mountains of the Haute Savoie cattle graze on slopes crowded with jostling wildflowers. Their milk becomes the cheese of the Savoie, in this case Beaufort.
We enjoyed the local cheese, especially Beaufort. It's complex flavors suggest the mountain meadows. It is best enjoyed with a local wine, a wine that may seem a bit rough to the international markets, but which pairs beautifully with the local cheese.
The Village of Les Proux
The building on the far left is the local cheesemaking cooperative. Farmers bring their steel canisters of milk here in the back of pick-up trucks. This facility produces Beaufort cheese.
These facilities are regarded as "inefficient" by the barons of the World Trade Organization who believe that French subsidies to support this agriculture should be eliminated in favor of competition from the multinationals.