Here comes a new very strong beating from Europe against the quality agri-food products of our country. Indeed, the EU commission has sent a formal notice to Italy, to impose a halt to a historic ban which does not allow the use of powdered milk, concentrated milk and reconstituted milk in the production of dairy products in our country. In practice, Europe wants to force us to produce "Grana without milk", or more precisely, mozzarella and cheeses also with these forms of freeze-dried milk because the current Italian prohibition it would limit the free movement of goods, especially those of lower quality from Europe.
Therefore, in the parts of Brussels it is thought that Italy must adapt to the production of dairy products with freeze-dried ingredients given that these types of products are widely used throughout Europe.?? A real diktat, the European one, which arrives in an absolutely mocking way precisely in the year of theExpo dedicated from Italy exclusively to the theme of food.
It seems evident that Europe and Italy are marching in absolutely opposite directions. In Italy, the ban was placed precisely to allow the safeguarding of products of absolute excellence, Europe wants Italy to be similar to the rest of the continent by drastically lowering the quality of dairy products in the name of the free movement of goods.
On the other hand, it is not the first time that Brussels speaks a language that is absolutely different from ours. In those parts, it seems that adapting to mediocrity is a vocation in terms of food production. This is the case, for example, of the permission granted to Northern European countries to increase the alcohol content of wine with the addition of sugar or of the question of the drastic reduction of the share of cocoa butter in the production of chocolate, opening the doors to the addition of new vegetable fats.
As Carlo Petrini, number one of Slow Food, writes in Repubblica, the warning that the European Commission imposes on us seems like a new tribute to be paid to the lobbies of big industry which risks losing the true flavor of our great dairy products and represents a offense to our country.
The ban that the EU Commission asks us to lift enhances Made in Italy and strengthens our identity. Please, let's hold on to it.
