Independent winding up the middle classes on a Saturday morning. This is the big cover story.
"Of course we don't know for sure scientifically, but the high rate of dioxin is most likely linked to what the buffaloes ate,"an unnamed Italian "expert" is quoted as saying...
OK there is a crisis of rubbish collection in Naples. OK, the Camorra are linked [and they arent the local "branch" of the Mafia, Indy editors. Theyre an independent loosely organised bunch, who may do the odd deal with the Sicilian Mafia, the N'drangheta in Calabria, or even the back from the dead Corona Sagrada of Puglia, but there ain't no Weberian hierarchy here]. They may even all just be brand names.
There is a follow-up article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/modern-mafia-operates-at-every-level-of-italian-society-799290.html
It is awfully broad brush and clearly the Indy must be having circulation trouble, or expects all its readers to be waiting for planes to Chiantishire for their Easter break.
Still at least the paper recognises there is life beyond la Manche!
CNN presents a calmer view of the mozarella crisis here: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/21/italy.cheese.ap/index.html
22 March 2008
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