The Mercosur free trade agreement could be an opportunity to try to align the rules between South America and the European Union. Trade unions, such as Coldiretti, should not dissipate their forces on meaningless projects such as the no to ‘cultured meat’ or the production of dried pasta, and focus on reciprocity of import standards
The other great threat to the Amazon is agribusiness: soya and meat, as the case of Italian-made bresaola, made with animals from Brazil, shows. And the indigenous territories have become akin to war zones. Indigenous people disappointed by Lula
All food is not equal, for our health and the environment, and this article proves it
Pope Francis: “There is a very consistent scientific consensus that we are in the presence of a worrying warming of the climate system. Climate change, with Covid- 19 and wars, has contributed to the inflationary drive suffered especially by the poorest
DuPont and 3M have known for decades that Pfas, used for example in the production of Teflon, are hazardous to health
“Unfortunately, I think it’s pretty interesting to buy a $7 pair of jeans if you’re not rich,” Ken Pucker, professor of practice at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and former chief operating officer of Timberland, told me last year
The impression is that the pattern described in this article – ‘The position of West Papuans is very clear: we are a modern colony’ – is replicated in many of these realities. In other parts of Indonesia, in Malaysia, in Colombia, in Guatemala, in Nigeria and in Côte d’Ivoire
The bird flu that started in 2022 led to the slaughter of 140 million animals. Duties could drive up their price again and they are in short supply in France
In many municipalities, water is already rationed. And we are still in the low season, as far as tourism is concerned, with Sicily being taken by storm for the holidays and the long bridge between Easter and the First of May, and with Agrigento, the Italian Capital of Culture 2025 which is expected to triple its number of presences. But with what water, if images of luxury B&Bs with water bins at the entrance for visitors and instructions in three languages on how to ‘wash up’ were already doing the rounds on the web last year?
Given the way the new administration is going about the environment by ‘running’ bird flu, cracking down on chemtrails (!!), denying climate change, and deforesting America, I’d say this is the last icing on the cake. The symbol of a nightmare
A test conducted by ‘Il Salvagente’ shows us, based on the analysis of 18 chicken breasts, that the nutritional composition of this meat seems to have changed radically in recent years, with a significant increase in fat content
on unfair practices and the exploitation of workers there is little to celebrate. And the desertification of the Agricultural Institutes confirms this
