WE THANK THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE BUYING NOW – The scandal of “Meat not meat”

Every so often, one in a hundred, the European Commission gets one right. in this case Parliament intervenes to undo it. Yesterday, within a set of amendments, some very apt, to the European regulation on food products of 2014, the Commission had proposed a measure of clarity: an amendment clarified that the words "Steak, Hamburger, Burger, Scaloppina, Salciccia" they could only be used for meat products. A measure of clarity that had two purposes:

• on the one hand, providing greater clarity to consumers, who would have known what they were buying, and would not have been faced with the “Steak plus steak” made with chemical flavorings and without meat;
• better protection was provided for the agricultural chain of meat producers, who would not have to suffer from unfair competition.

This measure of clarity, however, ran into two enormous forces:

• the large food industry (or chemical-food industry) which is pushing, to the sound of billionaire investments, the introduction of fake meats which, having a vegetable base, guarantee enormous margins. To see it just turn on the TV and see the insistence of the sickly commercials;
• the superficial fashionable ecologism that is impervious in central Europe.

These joint forces got the better of the farmers 'and consumers' associations, as well as the commission, so from tomorrow you will be buying meatless steaks, and you won't even be able to complain about it. A victory for the big capital which, for once, saw the bulk of the Italian deputies of almost all forces on the other side, with the exception of:

• Cozzolino and Picierno of the PD;
• almost the entire Five Star Movement (with one commendable exception) which is now an Italian branch of the European ordoliberal banality, willing to do anything to defend big industry.

The small Italian breeders will certainly be happy who from tomorrow will have to fight against the large multinationals to make it clear that a steak is made from meat and does not come from a synthesizer of chemical aromas …

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