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thebibliosphere:

white-throated-packrat:

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zamaron:

julianahuxtable:

sauvamente:

experienceme:

thewightknight:

This scam made the California University study 124 imported oils and found that over 70% of samples failed the tests.

These failed:

• Mezzetta
• Carapelli
• Pompeian
• Primadonna
• Mazola
• Sasso
• Colavita
• Star
• Antica Badia
• Whole Foods
• Safeway
• Felippo Berio
• Coricelli
• Bertolli

These brands passed:

• Corto olive
• Lucero
• McEvoy Ranch Organic
• Omaggio
• California Olive Branch
• Bariani Olive oil
• Lucini
• Ottavio
• Olea Estates
• Cobram Estate
• Kirkland Organic

Also, test the olive oil yourself at
home. Put the bottle out when cold, or in the fridge for 30 min. if it
gets solid, it is pure and has monounsaturated fats.

The lies!!!!

*throws out all the bertolli*

IM SO PRESSED/SHOOK RN

this is a real scandal

Ain’t that a bitch

They selling fake olive oil.

they been selling fake olive oil from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-business   This is a cool article on how they do it now and what they tend to substitute it with.

In 1997 and 1998, olive oil was the
most adulterated agricultural product in the European Union, prompting
the E.U.’s anti-fraud office to establish an olive-oil task force.
(“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the
risks,” one investigator told me.) The E.U. also began phasing out
subsidies for olive-oil producers and bottlers, in an effort to reduce
crime, and after a few years it disbanded the task force. Yet fraud
remains a major international problem: olive oil is far more valuable
than most other vegetable oils, but it is costly and time-consuming to
produce—and surprisingly easy to doctor. Adulteration is especially
common in Italy, the world’s leading importer, consumer, and exporter of
olive oil. (For the past ten years, Spain has produced more oil than
Italy, but much of it is shipped to Italy for packaging and is sold,
legally, as Italian oil.) “The vast majority of frauds uncovered in the
food-and-beverage sector involve this product,” Colonel Leopoldo Maria
De Filippi, the commander for the northern half of Italy of the N.A.S.
Carabinieri, an anti-adulteration group run under the auspices of the
Ministry of Health, told me.

In
Puglia, which produces about forty per cent of Italy’s olives, growers
have been in a near-constant state of crisis for more than a decade.
“Thousands of olive-oil producers are victims of this ‘drugged’ market,”
Antonio Barile, the president of the Puglia chapter of a major farmers’
union, told me, referring to illegal importations of seed oils and
cheap olive oil from outside the E.U., which undercut local farmers.
Instead of supporting small growers who make distinctive, premium oils,
the Italian government has consistently encouraged quan-tity over
quality, to the benefit of large companies that sell bulk oil. It has
not implemented a national plan for oil production, has employed a
byzantine system for distributing agricultural subsidies, and has often
failed to enforce Italian laws and E.U. regulations intended to prevent
fraud. The government has been so lax in pursuing some oil crimes that
it can seem complicit. In 2000, the European Court of Auditors reported
that Italy was responsible for eighty-seven per cent of misappropriated
E.U. subsidies to olive-oil bottlers in the preceding fifteen years, and
that the government had recovered only a fraction of the money.

I’ve been reading

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

by Tom Mueller, and wow, the things that get sold as ‘extra virgin’ olive oil are kind of scary, especially if you have any allergies. Or if you’re trying to use olive oil for health reasons – you’re likely paying a premium for something with none of the benefits you’re looking for.

Also, you could write at least 8 different genre novels about skullduggery in the olive oil trade, starting with a murder mystery and working your way out, because there’s just so much to unpack.

Well, that explains the rash of migraines/respiratory issues I had last month. I was cooking everything in whole foods oil and couldn’t figure it out.

If it was cut with canola oil then there’s my answer. Son of a bitch.

(“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.)

Reminder: In The Godfather, when the Corleones say they’re in the olive oil business, that’s not a euphemism.

olive oil in the US has been a mafia racket from the beginning 😂

https://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/oliveoil.asp

The test they failed was meeting the criteria for “extra-virgin,” not for being olive oil.

The 14 Fake Olive Oil Companies Are Revealed Now – Avoid These Brands