Celebrated peasant traditions in the name of ecologism: no more Buseca, tractors and salamelle at the historic feast of Monza and Brianza
No sausage at the San Fermo Festival. The mayor of Albiate (Monza and Brianza) decided: after 415 years of history Food and wine traditions must give way to Salutist diet in the Eurogreen lean sauce. Or, to put it with his words, to a “more holistic approach”.
So the country of the country will not be served sausage ritual but a “light meal” and the Great Busecadathat is, the tripe of tripe, historical appointment of the eventwill be Abolita tout court. Even for the zootechnical exhibition he throws badly: it will be replaced by a biological farmwhile the classic tractors parade will not be done. What do they want to put the parade of electric scooters in your place?
Of course: electric scooters are not exactly representative of peasant culture, unlike Tractors, Salamelle and Buseca. But who does it now care about peasant culture?
The new ideology eco-alutist considers farmers as the enemies of the community. Necessarily: they persist in breeding cows instead of supporting artificial meat, they produce cheeses in the stables instead of in the chemistry workshopsand do not give up on the idea that the synthetic food is better than what grows in their vegetable garden.
They tell albiate that they defend health because the country boasts they are in the “circuit of healthy cities»Promoted byWorld Health Organization. And it is worrying that this circuit exists, because, knowing the WHO, We fear that Sheriffi will be established to check our meal in detail.
What do you eat? Bacon and egg? Impossible: it is prohibited. Parmigiana? As well. Milanese cutlet? Let alone. A dish of cured meats? It is not talked about. A seasoned cheese? Risk the arrest.
Forward of this step, The diet will soon be established in healthy cities In the true sense of the word “regime”: whoever sgarra will be purged with castor oil, obviously holistic.
And perhaps someone the sausage of albiate may seem little in the face of what happens in the world. But that’s not the case. Because behind this Stupaese story are hidden the ghosts of two huge dangers for all of us.
The first is, precisely, the tendency to healthy dictatorshipthe increasingly evident desire for fall from the high rules of lifeimpose prohibitions and intrude into our world by limiting freedom. Also the freedom of Don’t eat lightif we like salami.
Then there is a second danger, no less serious: to erase our traditions, our past, that is, that we have been and that therefore we are. The problem is not to eliminate albial salamella or the porchetta in Ariccia or the fat ox in Carrù. The problem is Delete our roots. Because without roots the tree falls.
And going on this step, when we have finished the light lunch in holistic sauce, We will risk closing all the livestock fairs in order to applaud the Islamic slaughter of animals for the feast of sacrifice. That we will celebrate, devotedly kneeling towards Mecca, after having regretted us Halal food.
