Not just wine,XNUMX-XNUMX business days also wants to delete the promotion of meat and cured meats hitting a leading Made in Italy agri-food sector. This is what Coldiretti denounces in reporting that the EU Council for Agriculture and Fisheries of the 27 countries placed on the agenda the presentation and discussion of a joint document on the European promotion policy of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Hungary. Italy under the pressure of Coldiretti animates the European front of 12 countries that oppose the review of the products admitted to the promotion of the EU by the European Commission which aims at the exclusion of certain sectors such as the meat, cured meats and wine, considered dangerous for health.
“The demonization of steaks, chops, hams, salami, mortadella which have millions of European workers behind them, clearly coincides with the propaganda of the transition to a unique world diet, where synthetic food is a candidate to replace natural food. We cannot accept it - they point out Roberto Moncalvo president of Coldiretti Piemonte and Bruno Rivarossa Confederal Delegate -. It is in fact a profound contradiction that affects the small traditional typical products that need support to make themselves known on the market and that instead risk being condemned to extinction, while Frankenstein meat, obtained in the laboratory from in vitro cells, has been benefited by huge public resources granted by the European Union itself in favor of private companies.
Behind the business of meat in the tube are relevant economic interests and international speculations aimed at upsetting the world agri-food system and undermining the foundations of the Mediterranean diet that the European Union defends in words. The right commitment of the European Commission to protect the health of citizens cannot translate into simplistic decisions that risk unjustly criminalizing individual products regardless of the quantities consumed. L'nutritional balance in fact, it should be sought among the different foods consumed in the daily diet and certainly not condemning the specific product.
All this weighs even more on a territory like the Piemonte which holds the record in Italy in the enhancement of meats from historical Italian breeds, with the Piedmontese breed, and animal husbandry plays a role of great importance for the regional economic fabric, now challenged by the rise in the prices of raw materials, transport costs and from speculations along the supply chain "(source: Coldiretti).