ROME: Italys trash crisis taints reputation of a prized cheese - (New York Times)
March 26, 2008 – 9:13 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/world/europe/26italy.html?_r=2&ex=1364270400&en=cba7837e2b37ece8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Italians often minimize what afflicts them with this philosophy: Without the bad, no one would appreciate the good.
The question now on the table, almost literally, is whether their passion for food and the money it makes will finally force action against the lawlessness that is hurting the name of one of Italys most revered delicacies: mozzarella made with buffalo milk.
In the last few months, sales of buffalo mozzarella have dropped 40 percent, the products trade association says. The problem makes for a near-perfect morality play about Italy: For years, the nations paralyzed political class has done little to halt huge-scale illegal dumping of trash, some of it toxic, around Naples.
That area happens to produce some of the best mozzarella.
A new trash crisis peaked yet again, and last week fears that food might be contaminated seemed confirmed when health officials announced elevated levels of the carcinogen dioxin in […]
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