How rioting farmers unraveled Europe’s ambitious climate plan

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1. More social unrest to come. Bet.

2. > Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, a member of the country’s far-right ruling party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), declared cultivated meat a threat to Italian culture and civilization. Soon thereafter, members of the Italian delegation to the EU, joined by representatives from 11 other countries, called on the Council of Europe to “ensure that artificially lab-grown products must never be promoted as or confused for authentic foods,” ostensibly in the public interest.

   This is peak Italian and should be expected. Fake products are just not seen as alternatives to a culinary culture that thrives on authenticity.

   Teach Italians how to cut back on meat using old Italian dishes chock full of cannellini and lupini beans. Reintroduce people to Italian peasant food instead. Call it authentic.