(Finance) – Thein protest of farmers against Europe’s agricultural policies and governments’ choices, but also against cultivated meat, insect meals, taxes, diesel fuel, the selling off of land. From Emilia-Romagna to Sicily, passing through Umbria and Abruzzo, Italian farmers they continue to take to the streets with their tractors, creating many problems in several regions, while protests also continue in Germany and France.
“Farmers on the streets from January 22nd to the bitter end”, we read on the committee’s Facebook page with mobilizations in Frosinone, Latina, Turin, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna, Florence, Milan, Rome, Caserta and Naples, but also in various cities of the ‘Umbria, Sicily and Puglia. From the thirty tractors in Lazio, in Viterbo, to the over 200 vehicles that made mobility difficult in Bologna. In Pescara 300 take to the streets against the diktats of multinationals, in Grosseto the EU and uncultivated fields are in the sights.
Over 50 tractors and agricultural vehicles marched this morning from Capannori to Lucca to protest against the green deal and ask for protection for the advent of synthetic food. After the rally in front of the municipal building of Capannori (Lucca), the demonstration crossed the Lucca plain to the Frizzone motorway toll booth, and then along the Via Pesciatina, up to Lucca. The The slow procession naturally caused some traffic disruption but the farmers of Lucca found the solidarity of the citizens. On the tractors there are no banners of unions, associations or parties but only Italian flags and some signs: “Killer Europe”, “agriculture is dying” and “Let’s save our food” are some examples.
In the document to the EU, drawn up by the Italian, French and Austrian delegations and supported by those of the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Malta, Romania and Slovakia, the countries ask that, “before any authorization” for trade, the European Commission launches “a real public consultation on laboratory-grown meat” and conduct a “comprehensive, fact-based impact assessment.” Furthermore, cell-based products “can never be defined as meat”. Even more so Coldiretti launches a new challenge asking that laboratory products in the authorization processes “not be equated to food but rather to pharmaceutical products” reiterating the commitment “to build with the other large agricultural organizations in Europe a mobilization in Brussels” to change the policies of the European Union, from the stop to the imports of non-EU food without control on the health and environmental level to a CAP that protects the income and accompany the growth of agricultural businesses up to the no to cell-based foods.