<story><title>Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65110744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lm28469</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t have to be &amp;quot;far right&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;nationalistic&amp;quot; to not want to destroy your economy</text></item><item><author>kubb</author><text>BBC journos have a specific editorial style, and no doubt it influenced this headline, but this isn&amp;#x27;t to &amp;quot;protect food heritage&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Food and drink accounts for a quarter of Italy&amp;#x27;s GDP. It&amp;#x27;s about money. Italy has a far-right government, which is extremely open to lobbying from that sector, and &amp;quot;heritage&amp;quot; is aligned with their nationalistic stance.&lt;p&gt;Try to look a bit deeper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>9dev</author><text>If your economy is entirely dependent on a doomed industry, maybe, instead of artificially keeping it alive, focus on modernising that economy instead?</text></comment>
<story><title>Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65110744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lm28469</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t have to be &amp;quot;far right&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;nationalistic&amp;quot; to not want to destroy your economy</text></item><item><author>kubb</author><text>BBC journos have a specific editorial style, and no doubt it influenced this headline, but this isn&amp;#x27;t to &amp;quot;protect food heritage&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Food and drink accounts for a quarter of Italy&amp;#x27;s GDP. It&amp;#x27;s about money. Italy has a far-right government, which is extremely open to lobbying from that sector, and &amp;quot;heritage&amp;quot; is aligned with their nationalistic stance.&lt;p&gt;Try to look a bit deeper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soco</author><text>Yeah &amp;quot;think of the economy&amp;quot; gets to be a very common argument nowadays, almost like &amp;quot;think of the children&amp;quot;. I remember it used for refusing any covid restrictions, or used against climate protection measures... I wonder, was it used also to justify keeping slavery?</text></comment>