How the Hormuz crisis drives energy crops and aggravates the food emergency
Demand for alternative energy to oil, fertiliser demand and financial speculation threaten to exacerbate the storm unleashed by the war against Iran
Greenwashing in dairy and meat: Nestlé, Danone and JBS in the crosshairs. Only 2% of claims are verifiable
Of the total 1,233 claims analysed in the industry, only three were supported by scientific literature, and none of these three belonged to Nestlé or Danone. Furthermore, many of these promises lacked transparency
In the midst of the book market turmoil, the Hoepli family business goes into liquidation
When there is so much animosity, stepping aside is difficult. Not least because in a company there is history and identity, family but also individual.
Easy to say with hindsight, but a compromise, to the detriment of individuals, to save the company, is always desirable.
The government punishes organic and promotes wine
Do we put a spoke in the wheels of organic food, encouraging the ingestion of pesticides, and promote wine, the abuse of which is carcinogenic? More attention to the health of citizens would not hurt.
In the past twelve months, almost 4 out of 10 consumers in the US have boycotted a brand
‘Political and social positions now have measurable business consequences’
Industry margins doping inflation
Names crop up: Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Procter and Gamble, Kimberly Clark, Pepscico, Algida (Unilever) and L’Orèal for FMCG in a ‘Dejà Vu’ I had experienced in Esselunga with the advent of the Euro
Fertiliser blockade in the Strait of Hormuz will disrupt world food production
This new shock, after the inflationary shock caused by the attack on Ukraine, in addition to triggering a humanitarian cause, risks creating political extremism and new waves of migration towards Europe. It obviously adds to the short-sighted suspension of the dismantling of Usaid
Giuseppe Caprotti: ‘From trolleys to history, the luck of living more lives’
What will we read about in your new book? ‘I tell another side of the family through two extraordinary explorers: my eponymous ancestor Giuseppe Caprotti, who lived thirty years in Yemen, and my great uncle Gianni Albertini, a skier and mountaineer who explored the North Pole’.
Giorgia Meloni and Coldiretti put the brakes on the development of solar energy in Italy
The government, on energy, is in a huge conflict of interest, which is why prices do not fall: Snam, Italgas and Terna beat Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Meta (Facebook). Italy’s publicly controlled companies that transport or distribute gas and electricity to citizens and businesses are more profitable than some of the world’s largest, most technologically advanced and important companies in the business of the future: cloud, data centres and artificial intelligence. In short, Big Energy beats Big Tech
From citrus fruits to energy: the cost, also political, of climate change denied
The first attribution study on Cyclone Harry confirms the role of climate change being denied and ‘cancelled out’ by Trump. And in Europe, losses from extreme weather events since 1980 have amounted to €822 billion, growing exponentially in recent years
Food, environment and health: what could happen with the Mercosur-EU agreement
Mercosur: it is obvious that the ‘invasion’ risk of uncontrolled products, without the safeguard clauses, is likely to exacerbate the risks to our health. But the real problem is that in the European Union there are ‘derogation’ authorisations that allow prohibited substances to be used by member countries to compete unfairly with their neighbours. So before lashing out at Mercosur, perhaps we need to put things in order in Europe
US trends via Whole Foods (Amazon) recommendations: fibre is the new protein, tallow is all the rage
Tallow, fibre, protein. And then alcohol, whole milk and meat, with tro every logic but that of the US lobbies
