Italian Police Seize Olives From Middle East, Warn Of Coloring Treatment

Italian police have seized 85,000 tonnes of green olives treated with copper sulphate to brighten their colour, and thousands of tonnes of foreign olive oil being passed off as 'Made in Italy'.

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Italian police have seized 85,000 tonnes of green olives treated with copper sulphate to brighten their colour, and thousands of tonnes of foreign olive oil being passed off as 'Made in Italy'.
Nineteen people face charges over the 'painted' olives, including use of banned additives and planning to sell edible goods containing dangerous substances, the forestry police said on Wednesday.
Old olives from previous years' harvests which had lost their colour were 'recycled' with a coat of copper sulphate to give them an intense and uniform green colour.
Copper sulphate was a clever choice, police said, because it is not normally classified as a colourant so food control authorities do not usually test for it.
The home of pizza and prosciutto has long struggled against counterfeiting of its prized culinary goods, and police estimate the domestic market for fake foodstuffs is worth around 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) a year.
Police also said they put six people under investigation in the southern Puglia region and seized 7,000 tonnes of olive oil purporting to be the Italian 'extra virgin' variety which is prized for its rich taste and health benefits.
DNA tests showed the olives that yielded the oil were not from Italy, until recently the world's second biggest olive oil producer, but places including Syria and Turkey, the police statement said.

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More than 85,000 tons of green olives seized by Italian police after they were coated with copper sulphate to improve their colour
Olives were from a previous harvest and 'painted' to make them look fresh
19 people face criminal charges including use of banned additives
Food authorities don't usually test for copper sulphate, according to police
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 18:13 EST, 3 February 2016 | UPDATED: 02:32 EST, 4 February 2016

Protesting Brunch

Anti-omelet "Black Brunch" protesters in Oakland, Calif.
[From article]
the profoundly stupid “black brunch” protests, during which racial-grievance entrepreneurs disrupted meals at places that seemed to them offensively Caucasian (“white spaces”) are a different species of undertaking.
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It’s the familiar Trotsky conundrum: You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
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They were targeted on racial grounds: These were detestable “white spaces,” and the people there were to be punished for being white — even if they were not, in fact, white, their presence in “white spaces” makes them guilty by association.
[. . .]
You don’t get paid leaning on brunchers; you get paid leaning on Google, a company in which whites are slightly underrepresented but Asian Americans are wildly overrepresented, constituting about 30 percent of its employees. When it comes to “people of color,” you can be sure that the Reverend Jackson has a favorite crayon in his diversity pack.
[. . .]
What’s hilarious is that the protesters themselves are getting a lesson in why private life matters. When an enterprising WBZ-TV reporter, Ken MacLeod, started tracking down the Boston protesters who shut down the freeway and found them at their homes — often their parents’ homes, mansions in Brookline — he was accused of “harassment,” told “I need you to leave our property immediately,” etc. Which is to say, the protesters, having inserted themselves into public affairs, wished to enjoy the courtesy that they refused to extend to those who hadn’t inserted themselves into public affairs.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396798/abolition-private-life-kevin-d-williamson

JANUARY 21, 2015 4:00 AM
The Abolition of Private Life
They’re coming for your Denver omelet.
By Kevin D. Williamson

Justice Department Agreement With Lesley University May Bring Food Police

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“By implementing this agreement, Lesley University will ensure students with celiac disease and other food allergies can obtain safe and nutritional food options,” said Thomas E. Perez, who then was assistant attorney general for the U.S. Civil Rights Division.
“The agreement ensures that Lesley’s meal program is attentive to the schedules and demands of college students with food allergies, an issue colleges and universities across the country need to consider.”


http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/government-watchdog-warns-about-menu-police/

Government watchdog warns about menu police
Precedent leaves food services, from schools to cafeterias, exposed to liability
October 18, 2013

Food Police Mislead


"But this campaign isn't about public health -- it's about grandstanding on a pseudo-issue ginned up by activists, when science clearly shows that there's neither a crisis nor a way for the government to actually alter our salt intake."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/as_salt_on_science_t5MDuh3FqtTWpMS5bs282J

As-salt on science
New city plan based on myth
By DANIEL COMPTON
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:16 AM, January 13, 2010
Posted: 2:32 AM, January 13, 2010