{"id":5229,"date":"2022-11-28T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2022-11-29T06:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:03:38","slug":"how-stephen-harper-and-an-italian-love-of-terroir-drove-alberta-farmers-into-a-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/how-stephen-harper-and-an-italian-love-of-terroir-drove-alberta-farmers-into-a-trade-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How Stephen Harper and an Italian love of terroir drove Alberta farmers into a trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Star &#8211; <em>Next to the European Union, Canada is the world\u2018s second-largest producer of durum wheat, the grain that is used in semolina to make pasta and couscous. But is Canadian wheat as impeccable as we like to believe? Or is its cultivation\u00a0tainted\u00a0by the controversial use of the pesticide glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup?<\/em><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"345\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-5230\" data-id=\"5230\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/durum-wheat.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/durum-wheat.jpg 478w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/durum-wheat-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/durum-wheat-83x60.jpg 83w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/durum-wheat-125x90.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">\u2018You\u2019re going against the natural cycle of this grain\u2019: In Italy, durum wheat is sown in the autumn and harvested in June when it\u2019s warm and dry. In Canada, wheat is sowed in March and harvest in wet September.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-5232\" data-id=\"5232\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-135x90.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1086px) 100vw, 1086px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-5234\" data-id=\"5234\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pasta-1-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><em>That\u2019s what some leading personalities in agribusiness in Italy claim. Are they right? The journalist Marie-Claude Lortie, former columnist at La Presse, now the editor-in-chief of Le Droit, investigated these questions thanks to an award from the Michener Foundation.<\/em><\/p><p>GRAGNANO, Italie \u2014 If you listen closely, above the sound of car horns and Vespa scooters speeding through the side streets of this city of 36,000 stuck onto Naples, you can almost hear the sound of bronze dies cutting, cutting and cutting some more. Because there are pasta factories everywhere here.<\/p><p>In each of them, water is poured onto semolina and the resulting paste is spread out so it can be pushed through bronze dies to be cut into spaghetti, macaroni, rigatoni and other types of pasta. From there the product is dried and sent out to the global market.<\/p><p>Gragnano, the \u201ccity of pasta\u201d as it is known in Italy, has its one PGI \u2014 a protected geographic indication, similar to champagne or Camembert cheese in France.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in your wheat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[971,972,973],"class_list":{"0":"post-5229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-canadian-wheat","9":"tag-italian-pasta","10":"tag-trade-war"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/durum-wheat.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}