Coldiretti, blitz within the port of Salerno in opposition to Chinese language tomato focus

Coldiretti blitz within the ports of Salerno e Bari to defend the made in Italy from the invasion of international merchandise. The operations are nonetheless ongoing, with the farmers who, as soon as they acquired into the dinghies, approached the ships shouting “No faux in Italy” launched in the course of the mobilization at Brenner just a few months in the past. “Cease faux Italian meals” e “No extra unfair imports” among the slogans displayed by the boats. Goal: “as soon as once more relaunch the request for the revision of the criterion of the most recent transformation of the Customs Code on the origin of meals – states the affiliation – what at the moment permits the identification theft of our manufactured in Italy merchandise and makes a ham made with pork legs from overseas bought as Italian“.

The ship arrived close to the port in Salerno with 40 containers of Chinese language tomato paste. 90% destined for export comes from the fields of the Xinjiang area, the place it will be grown because of the compelled labor of Uyghurs. A phenomenon denounced by associations for the respect of human rights.