Mafia Bread "Poisoning" Naples As Organized Crime Expands Grip On City

Not satisfied with control of the drug trade, building industry and rubbish collection in Naples, the local mafia is getting into the bakery trade and ensuring that Neapolitans rely on the mob for their daily bread.

According to a report released last week, city officials and investigators suspect Camorra clans are behind many of the 1,400 unlicensed backstreet bakeries in and around the city which supply hundreds of street vendors who sell loaves out of car boots - and they may be spreading into selling other basic food products.

Open 24 hours a day, the street sellers are drawing shoppers with cheap, crusty bread fresh from wood-burning ovens, the way Neapolitans like it. But police say Naples' new breed of bakers are slowly poisoning their customers by burning old varnished wood, nut shells covered in pesticides and even planks pulled from exhumed coffins. 'Whoever buys this bread is eating dioxins and carcinogenic substances and putting their health at serious risk,' said Francesco Borrelli, assessor for agriculture for the province of Naples.

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Comments

[VitoCorleone]

La Cosa had nothing to do with this; we don't do such things, it's an INFAMIA.
This is Camorra business from begining to end; Napolitani all the way.
Sicilianis don't do these things; we can make money in many other ways.
These fellas in Napoli are desperate in their chase for a buck; envy, I guess.

[jerrypenguin]

Send the stuff to the US. Serve it as a compliment to highly processed foods, feed lot meats, and fast foods. Add a bit of Monsanto spice and we will have a most delectable chemical feast.

[BookDesigner]

Cut corners, use inferior or dangerous ingredients, increase profits--multi-national capitalism at its best.

[totalliberal]

Mafia, Wall Street. It's a matter of scale only.

(And they're getting closer.)

[militantlibrarian]

Seems like our food coming from China, but big import companies wouldn't act like the Mafia, of course.