Coldiretti's complaint
The multinational Facebook censures the campaign to collect signatures in support of the conversion of the bill to stop synthetic foods in the absence of adequate guarantees from the point of view of Food safety and environmental. This is what Coldiretti denounces in underlining that the post with the information poster created to make known the reasons for the collection of signatures has been removed from the most widespread social network in the world. According to Facebook fast checking - Coldiretti denounces - the manifesto would misinform as it defines foods obtained in the laboratory as synthetic while it would be "cultivated meat". In reality, the report just published by the FAO and the World Organization shows that the term "synthetic foods" is used in the academic field as well as by the media, even if the definition considered clearer by the two world authorities is that of "cellular-based food". , preferable to the term "cultivated" used instead by the manufacturing industries but considered misleading. Moreover, in the published Report it is also considered questionable to use the terms meat, chicken or fish for these products.
A meat obtained in the laboratory
There is an objective risk of deceiving citizens since in reality the meat obtained in the laboratory according to Coldiretti is not meat and is not cultivated. According to the Treccani encyclopedia - reports Coldiretti - meat means "the muscular part of the animal's body" and consequently without an animal there is no meat while the meaning of cultivating is "to take care of the land, a plant with work , fertilization and other appropriate means to make them capable of bearing fruit". None of this is accomplished in the laboratory or in the bioreactor used. The presumption of even wanting to change the vocabulary - continues Coldiretti - is a measure of the interests that hide behind a business of a few in which Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal) and Marc Andreessen (founder of Netscape) have invested, among others. , from Jerry Yang (co-founder of Yahoo!) to Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems).
The need for mobilisation
A contribution to clarity comes from the FAO/WHO document "Aspects of food safety of cellular-based food" which identifies as many as 53 potential risks, from allergies to cancer, which was published after the presentation in Italy of the bill on the production, marketing and use of artificial food which will now have to be discussed and then approved by Parliament. A transparent institutional path following the collection by Coldiretti of half a million signatures of citizens, over 2 thousand municipalities that have often resolved unanimously, all the regions of every political color and exponents of every alignment who supported the proposal in bipartisan way. A mobilization which – concludes Coldiretti – has the merit of having turned the spotlight on a business in the hands of a few rich and influential people in the world and until now kept hidden but which can change people's lives and the environment around us, with the positive opening of a discussion in the country and in Parliament which represents the home of democracy. (Source COLDIRETTI)