It started in the town of Lucca this week and spread to Lombardy and its regional capital, Milan, this campaign against foreign food. The center right government is trying to ‘preserve tradition’ by ‘making the Italians eat Italian food’. Luca Zaia, the Minister of Agriculture has never eaten a kebab or a non Italian dish in his life, he even refuses to eat a pineapple.
“Davide Boni, a councillor in Milan for the Northern League, which also opposes the building of mosques in Italian cities, said that kebab shop owners were prepared to work long hours, which was unfair competition.”
This would be funny if they weren’t serious. Article here.
Book of the week
End of the Line. Clover, environment editor of London's Daily Telegraph, shows that fishing with modern technology has put us just a hairsbreadth away from destroying entire ocean ecosystems. New England's fisheries have collapsed, the fish stocks of West Africa's continental shelf are overexploited, few cod are left in Newfoundland's Grand Banks.
Song of the week
I remember listening to songs about trains and feeling the rush of wonder at the possibility that the world was infinite and accessible all at the same time. And then it was songs about highways and born to be wild and little red corvette and the road went on forever in my mind- Guy Forsyth, Long long time.
Celebrity Quote of the week
Dan Quayle: "It isn't pollution that is hurting the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
Panel 4
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Panel 5
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Italy outlaws “foreign’ food
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