Lollobrigida, today food is an inappropriate weapon in an increasingly complex hybrid war

Today, food once again becomes not only a nutritional reality but also an improper weapon used in an increasingly complex hybrid war. And then the strengthening of food sovereignty, which at the beginning of our mandate seemed to descend on our nation as a call to autarchy. Carlin Petrini, whom I remember with great esteem and great nostalgia, had the opportunity to clarify that it was, instead, about the freedom of peoples to continue to produce and consume what they want. And the complex situation we are experiencing, unlike recent generations, has put us in a position to reclaim what was clear for centuries. A pandemic, a war, the closure of a strait can call into question your system and your lifestyle and even your diet.

For this reason, alongside emergency interventions and market crises, we intended to imagine a structural intervention such as Coltiva Italia". This was said by the Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, in the reply to the ColtivaItalia bill, being examined by the Senate.

"Italian farmers are honest people, within the demonstrations that took place there were full-blown criminals who are not the great mass of farmers. Indeed, those are the victims of those who tried to exploit them, fortunately with relatively catastrophic results, and what I declared was exactly in this sense", added Lollobrigida. And he added: "If you find an 'ndragheta member who buys a newspaper page calling for mobilization, you say that he is an 'ndragheta member who is trying to exploit the farmers. If you find a convicted criminal leading a demonstration, you say that he is a convicted criminal leading a demonstration, which does not mean insulting the workers, honest men and women in the fields and at sea with whom we speak daily both in the role of minister and representative of the institutions in Parliament and as citizens".

Finally he explained: "We are not yet at the stage of declarations of vote and therefore I cannot say that there will be no votes against, as happened in the Chamber, but some of my opposition colleagues have already announced a vote of abstention. Which presupposes that even if they consider the measure insufficient, they are not against it and therefore I can generally say that we have made a step forward compared to the situation which we found not particularly rosy for agriculture. In the last 30 years in Europe and Italy almost one in two companies have closed, between 2010 and 2020 over 400 thousand companies. From 2020 to today, the closure of companies compared to previous data is negligible, we are talking about 3000 companies closed in Italy".