Italian cheesemakers cool their cows to protect their milk
Butter – the cost of which has risen by 83% year-on-year – is made from milk fat and cream and therefore its production requires a lot of milk, the global supply of which has declined, partly due to the diseases that have affected dairy cow herds in Europe, and partly due to the high cost of feed. Then there is the issue of climate change that causes milk prices to skyrocket as Granarolo confirms
JBS, the world’s largest meat multinational financing Donald Trump: IPO amid corruption and environmental devastation
Mercosur: possible dangers and opportunities to be discovered
Meloni and Macron have something in common: they don’t give a damn about climate change and the environment
In March 2023, Giorgia Meloni said in parliament that she does not deny climate change but does not want to ‘damage the economy or cause unemployment’. But funds to protect the environment would be part of the GDP if only they were used: the environment forgotten: eight billion unspent and task forces never born
The bluefin tuna story between ecological tragedy and a glimmer of hope
bluefin tuna, due to pollution and possible extinction, should be consumed ‘in moderation’
Guido Venosta, the ‘illustrious creator of the Association for Cancer Research’
“If Italian oncological research is today at the forefront in the international arena, a certain amount of credit goes to Guido Venosta”
Umberto Veronesi and Giuseppe Della Porta in Fondamentale, 5 April 1998
Donald Trump has taken medical care away from American Indians
In the enormous confusion that now reigns in the American administration, health, already compromised by diabetes and alcoholism, is further endangered by the policies of the current government: under the pretext of dismantling DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programmes, the Trump government is suspending health aid to some 10 million ‘Native Americans’ in the US
Food: the deterioration in quality is confirmed
From rampant shrinkinflation to junk food from Nestlé and McDonald’s, to PFAS, to the ubiquitous inflation-fuelled discountability. Some diseases are worrying
Nestlé’s water activities under indictment: the scandal no one in Italy wants to talk about
In France, Perrier mineral water risks being downgraded to potable, the problem of PFAS in water, even tap water
Auchan-Conad-Raffaele Mincione WHAT A STRANGE TRIANGULATION. About journalists, cooperatives and trade unions
For financier Raffaele Mincione – former partner of Conad – 5 years and 6 months, plus 8,000 euro fine and perpetual disqualification from public office. I met Mauro Suttora in 2009. He told me that the publisher who had commissioned this article did not want to publish it. The affair ends with the investigation into the top management for corruption (2025), which could end ‘in tar and feathers’
Fast fashion: from Zara to Shein, the site is more popular than Amazon but with questionable methods
The Chinese company is probably the largest textile operator in the world, but it is also the most damaging, for workers and the environment
‘Where the world goes’ temu, with questionable methods, conquering Europe
The trade war: US and Europe against Temu, Shein and AliExpress (Alibaba)
