apparently, there is a letter from the company which ends with something about “in light of the Black Lives Matter movement”:
24 Jul: news.com.au: Coon cheese to dump ‘racist’ name after complaint from Aboriginal activist
The owners of Coon cheese have decided to dump the brand name after receiving a complaint which called the current name “racist”.
by Phoebe Loomes
The Canadian owners of Coon cheese have responded to calls for the name to be dumped, saying after careful consideration, they’ll be renaming the popular Aussie cheese...
Saputo Dairy Australia responded to the calls, with the company’s CEO Lino Saputo Jr saying in a statement the brand is developing a new name “aligning with current attitudes and perspectives”...
“We wanted to ensure we listened to all the concerns surrounding the COON brand name, while also considering comments from consumers who cherish the brand and recognise the origin of its founder Edward William Coon, which they feel connected to.
“After thorough consideration, Saputo has decided to retire the COON brand name. As part of this process of transformation, we commit to keep our stakeholders informed as we move forward.”...
The brand, which was originally an Australian owned company, was named after American Edward William Coon.
A statement previously published on the company’s website said the brand was named after “the work of an American, Edward William Coon, who patented a unique ripening process that was used to manufacture the original Coon cheese”...
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/coon-cheese-to-dump-racist-name-after-complaint-from-aboriginal-activist/news-story/a4e3ad0907111138bb3a39e7a705458f
this has been removed:
BLM Protestor Admits To Being A ‘Huge Fan’ Of Coon Cheese
Double Bay Today Australia - 24 Jul 2020
2 hours ago - A proud member of the Black Lives Matter movement has admitted he’s a regular consumer of Coon cheese. “Despite its controversial name, ...
24 Jul: Daily Mail: Coon cheese is dead: Foreign owners kill off controversial brand name after Aboriginal activist spent 20 years lobbying to have it changed
By Kelsey Wilkie
The move comes after the Black Lives Matter movement gathered momentum in the wake of the death of George Floyd...
Dr Hagan said the word ‘coon’ is demeaning to people of colour, particularly First Nations people in Australia because it was used by oppressors to belittle them as a race.
He also asked the company to investigate the origins of the company’s name, amid doubts over the existence of Edward Coon...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8555439/Coon-cheese-dead-Foreign-owners-kill-controversial-brand-Australia.html
Wikipedia: Stephen Hagan (born 1959) is an Australian author and anti-racism campaigner. He is also a newspaper editor, documentary maker, university lecturer and former diplomat.
yet he has never checked out information available online!
Enacademic: Coon cheese
The Coon cheese-makers
The cheese is said to be named after its American creator Edward W. Coon (1871–1934) of Philadelphia, who patented a method, subsequently known as the Cooning process, for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity...
Former manufacturer Kraft, and later Dairy Farmers and National Foods, have vigorously defended the trademark.
E. W. Coon was the grandson of Amherst Coon (1795–1877), a farmer born in Russia, New York, who married Sally Betsey Treat in 1822. His sons Mattison (b. 1823) and Ephraim Coon (b. 1832) were described in 1893 as having been in the butter and cheese business together at 29, South Water Street, Philadelphia, for more than thirty years. Ephraim’s son Edward Willie Coon was born on July 30, 1871, and had taken out at least one cheese patent by 1912...
In August 1923, The Journal and Republican of Lowville, New York, reported the sale by “E. W. Coon of Philadelphia, maker and shipper of cheese”, of five milk plants in villages around Watertown to the Dairymen’s League Co-operative Association, Inc...
After selling his processing plants, Edward W. Coon became a cheese dealer in Philadelphia. He died in 1934, aged sixty-two...
Disagreement
The accuracy of Dairy Farmers’ account of the origin of the brand has been challenged. Anti-racism campaigner Stephen Hagan has said that he has been unable to find evidence that Edward Coon was a famous cheese maker, contending that the name came instead from the black wraparound in which it was originally sold...
https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1100035
the following can be found in Google books...url too long to post:
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents By United States. Patent Office
Coon, Edward W., Philadelphia, Pa. Cheese No. 87,857; Aug 13: Gaz. vol 181: p. 535.