Top Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli told BBC Radio 4 news that burning refuse in Naples was resulting in dioxins ending up in local milk and buffalo mozzarella, I heard on the radio as I was driving home on Thursday evening.
The refuse collection crisis in Naples has been running for three weeks and the streets are piled high with rotting rubbish, with residents now resorting to burning it. And in addition to the refuse problem, the herds of buffalo on the plains of Campania around Naples are afflicted with Brucellosis, which means that around 30% of the animals will have to be slaughtered in the next two months.
“This problem has been going on for 15 years…I’d eat mozzarella myself but I wouldn’t give it to my children,” said Locatelli. Yuk.
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