Padua was one of the first Italian municipalities to include organic food in school canteens, and it's inexplicably changing course right now...
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In the face of a growing sensitivity of the population on issues of food quality, territory and the seasonality of diets, in order to promote public health, the local economy and cultural growth.
Despite the constant offer of collaboration on the part of those who have made Padua a small capital of Italian “organic” for decades.
Despite being demonstrated by numerous other municipalities that it is possible, and much better than before, to have a healthy, organic, intelligent, responsible and economic diet, in the true sense of the word...
Despite the mobilization to sign, online and in paper, the appeal to the Mayor of more than 1,500 citizens of Padua and surroundings -
read here that expresses in an exemplary and civil way the central role of school catering for the territory and the local community - a petition that has not received the slightest attention from the Municipal Administration
Despite specific legal obligations, as explained in the Assobio document, read here.
Despite a long mobilization of parents, exhausted and fragmented over time, with the precise objective of getting out of the way any confrontation that does not refer only to the “accounts”, often fragmentary and contradictory.
But you know, the only reference left is savings on social costs, everything else is no longer 'politics'.
It's disheartening to have to hope for an appeal to the TAR, really.
But it is still possible to protest, and that is what we invite you to do.
Franco Zecchinato
