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>Greek olive oil is considered the best in the world and doesn't suffer from Mafia infiltration which is a huge problem in Italy. Well, maybe you are generaliz

• metroholografix 8y ago
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-crime-food/italian-police-break-mafia-ring-exporting-fake-olive-oil-to-u-s-idUSKBN1602BD https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-crime-food/italian-... https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/mafia-olive-oil-on-60-minutes/50203 https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/mafia-olive-o... https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2016/02/10/the-olive-oil-scam-if-80-is-fake-why-do-you-keep-buying-it/#a2a6e4c639d7 https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2016/02/10/the... From the last link: "It's reliably reported that 80% of the Italian olive oil on the market is fraudulent." Combine that with Camorra dumping toxic waste and poisoning vast areas of the Italian countryside and it's pretty obvious that Italy has a huge problem.
  • jaclaz 8y ago
    Well, those say nothing about the actual quality of "real" and "really italian" extravirgin olive oil. They only say that there is a lot of fake (or partially fake) oil around marked as Italian. And that some (good) producers of (good) olive oil are intimidated or forced to cooperate with Mafia. >Combine that with Camorra dumping toxic waste and poisoning vast areas of the Italian countryside and it's pretty obvious that Italy has a huge problem. Actually Italy has more than one huge problem, but this latter one you cited has nothing to do with "real" olive oil and its quality.