Sardinia: Milk and Cheese, Pastures and Herders 30 July 2020 Silvia Ceriani Three million two hundred thousand sheep, twelve thousand eight hundred herders, thirty-three cooperatives. These are the numbers behind the primary sector of the Sardinian economy, to which we dedicated special attention during the last edition of Cheese, when it was going through a particularly difficult phase. We’ve supported Sardinian herders by telling their story and …
A Land of Milk and Money 13 February 2019 Carlo Petrini On the Italian island of Sardinia, shepherds are pouring their milk out on the roads in protest at the crushingly low price that it is fetching. Who is to blame? What role do we as consumers play in the crisis?