Le Ossa dei Caprotti” presentation, Ascoli Piceno 10 December 2024
[vc_column_textOn 10 December 2024, the Teatro dei Filarmonici in Ascoli Piceno hosted ‘Artisan Intelligence’, an event dedicated to the future…
“Russia has not finished paying the price for its ‘special operation’ in Ukraine”
Interest rates reached an exorbitant 21% at the end of October, inflation statistics are manipulated, oil revenues and reserves are dropping precipitously, and investments are stalled
Nutriscore: the traffic light labelling wanted by Germany and France and pushed by Nestlé and Unilever
The Nutriscore (traffic light labelling) on the cover gives a good idea: according to this system, olive oil would get a failing grade while Coca-Cola would be ‘promoted’. The system is ‘sponsored’ by food multinationals such as Coca-Cola, Mondelez (formerly Kraft), Pepsico,Unilever, Mars and Nestlé.
Ukraine, fighting without soldiers: the battle of Lyptsi and the robot-only army
“Drones and AI played a small but significant part in the very early stages of the conflict in Ukraine; they were new technologies with distinctly asymmetrical potential that bridged the gap with a much stronger aggressor… the conflict in Ukraine is a momentous turning point, as it demonstrated how quickly a relatively untrained military force can train and arm itself using commercially available and relatively inexpensive technologies
Exploiting the Ozempic boom: how food companies must adapt
A study by Morgan Stanley revealed that monthly food expenditure decreased by up to 9 per cent in households with AQA1 users. More recently, major food and beverage companies have reported a marked decrease in sales of snacks and sweets
There is no minimum consumption of alcoholic beverages that is ‘safe’ for health
The consumption of alcohol can cause at least seven different types of cancer, even if only small amounts are consumed. The most affected areas are the mouth and throat, larynx, oesophagus, colorectum, liver and breast (in women). This was reconfirmed by the US Surgeon General in January 2025 but in Italy social pressure is put on those who do not drink
Bonifiche Ferraresi: agriculture but also pasta, large-scale distribution and Africa
Products and distribution in Italy, investments and presence in Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Angola, Ghana, Egypt Kenya Tunisia and Ethiopia. ‘Food is not an economic issue, but a geopolitical one’ Federico Vecchioni, with the hope that agriculture in our country will not be abandoned
Monini announces: will extra virgin olive oil cost less? It doesn’t and it wouldn’t be good news anyway
In essence, Spain dominates the market on both the volume and value side. There is little to rejoice about!
Food groups develop a taste for cocoa alternatives
Given the ongoing climate change and the environmental degradation caused by the industrial management of agriculture and animal husbandry, we will have to resign ourselves to finding alternative raw materials to the current ones. This is the case, after cultivated meat and synthetic milk, of cocoa.
A eulogy to Europe and its Union
If small and medium-sized Italian companies have any chance of growth, stuck as they are in an economy that has been at a standstill for twenty years, they owe it to the great European project and its techno-bureaucratic construction. The EU has great advantages that we often take for granted
