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<pre>WELCOME to the real world. The small producer has always been sacrifished
on the alter of political expedience and money. Example: price supports to
the EU farmers
when they are selling below cost of production into the US markets. Here
again agriculture is sacrifised in the name of world peace to not
antagonize Nato members.
Maurice Penna


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> From: Volker Piasta <piasta@sirt.pisa.it>
> To: maillist olive oil <OliveOil@onelist.com>
> Subject: [OliveOil] The Olive Oil Scandal
> Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 6:36 AM
>
> From: "Volker Piasta" <piasta@sirt.pisa.it>
>
> It is well known that the olive oil INDUSTRY uses these methods to fraud
the
> consumer. Mixing non olive oil with olive oil is illegal. Mixing refined
> olive oil with extra vergine and sell it as extra vergine is illegal,
too.
> Selling non tuscan olive oil as tuscan is a little bit less illegal
because
> they use very tricky methods. The big italian brand Carapelli for
instance
> has made a big TV promotion that shows the Tuscan countryside while the
> speaker talks with an +ACI-inconfondibile accento toscano+ACI- (a non
confusable
> tuscan accent). At the end he says 'Carapelli, the olive oil with the non
> confusable tuscan accent' and I bet that nearly everybody believes that
this
> oil is tuscan oil. But they never say it. On the label you find the
writing
> 'bottled in ... (some well known place in Tuscany)'. In reality, nobody
> knows if this oil is made from tuscan or even italian olives , it is said
> nowhere. The new European laws protect the industry, not the small
producer
> and not at all the consumer. I have not yet read the law but it looks
like
> that it is sufficient to add a certain quantity of italian olive oil to
an
> imported olive oil and they can call it 'italian'. In the USA things are
> even worse, as we could read in one of the last messages, not even the
term
> 'extra vergine' is protected, so they even don't fraud if they sell
> something else.
> These things make me very angry because they show me that often the
> governments don't protect those who need protection (small producers,
> consumers) but those who have the money to buy the politicians.
> Volker
>
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