Back to the limelight, Michele Vittoria Brambilla. This time, with a battle ... vegan. The Honorable Lecco, president of the Italian League for the Defense of Animals and the Environment, presented a parliamentary question to ask the Government "What urgent initiative" does the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza intend to undertake to avoid "discrimination against persons or families who operate a vegan or vegetarian food choice, which, according to the new national guidelines for school, hospital and welfare catering, currently being approved, may be required to have a medical prescription to obtain diet required.
The problem, according to Brambilla, is that the new ministerial guidelines deny those in force since 2010, according to which: "The vegan ethical and cultural choice cannot be questioned or certified by a doctor or vegetarian of a person, of a family, as well as religious food choices, since it is not a disease ". In short, the change of line of the Lungotevere Ripa department did not go down to loyal Berlusconi: according to him it would even discourage those who choose not to eat meat.
"International organizations such as IPCC, FAO and WHO have been affirming for some time that the fight against climate change is also achieved on our tables - where the balanced preference for plant foods, less impacting and healthier - and have repeatedly reaffirmed the validity and adequacy of food choices in all stages of the life cycle that include a reduction or exclusion of products of animal origin"(Newspaper of Lecco).