Food Culture and the Far-Right - Making sense of the Italian Ban on Cultivated Meat

Food Culture and the Far-Right - Making sense of the Italian Ban on Cultivated Meat Bellenghi, Guido Author aut Knuth, Luca Author aut Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-10-13 eng Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. Brillat-Savarin’s words describe how what we eat and how we prepare it forms part of our identity. The Bolognese tortellini, the Swabian Spätzle and the Polish Łazanki are very much different from one another. What they have in common, however, is that they do not represent merely a dish, but an essential part of regional heritages. Under the nationalist slogan of 'food sovereignty', the Italian government presents itself as the protector of Italian culinary identity with a ban on cultivated meat. From an EU law perspective, the ban is a largely ineffective ‘talk show law’. Nevertheless, it puts on the table the politics underlying food regulation and the room left for national differentiation within harmonised areas of the internal market. CC BY-SA 4.0 Bellenghi, Guido Food regulation Harmonisation 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/food-culture-and-the-far-right/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/5e856b9a330e7379 231013 10.59704/5e856b9a330e7379 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)