(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 21 - "Agriculture is a human activity that ensures the production of primary goods and is a source of great values. Today we appreciate more than ever this productive activity in a time marked by war, because the lack of production of wheat starves the peoples and keeps them in check. The absurd choices of investing in weapons rather than agriculture make Isaiah's dream of transforming swords into plows, spears into scythes current again ".
This is what the Italian bishops affirm in the Message of the CEI for the 72nd National Thanksgiving Day, scheduled for November 6, 2022.
Furthermore, the Church continues to "denounce the forms of mafia corruption and exploitation of the poor and wants to keep its hands free from links with the powers of invasive and destructive agromafies. Unfortunately, polluted lands are also the result of silent silence and indifference".
"Not infrequently an action that creates great economic, social and environmental imbalances infiltrates the agricultural activity. The flourishing activity of agromafies is now widely documented in some Italian regions, causing even traditionally healthy sectors and subjects to slip towards the underground economy, involving them in networks of corrupt relationships. The laundering of dirty money or the pollution of the land on which harmful substances are spilled, the phenomenon of 'land of fires' which highlight the damage suffered by farmers and the environment, victims of fires caused by criminal criminals, are examples of degradation In companies captured by unjust dynamics, behaviors that threaten both the quality of the food produced and the rights of the workers involved in production are strengthened.These are sinful structures that infiltrate the food production chain ", concludes the message. (ANSA).
