A very popular revolutionary song during the Spanish Civil War defended the already then the innocence of the vegetables: 'What fault has the tomato/ peaceful in the shrub/ then comes a bad man/ putting it in a tin/ and sending it to Caracas. The couplet ballad recuperated in the turbulent 70's by the Chilean group 'Quilapayun, it was a programme, displayed with corroded extremism, against the rich proprietors of the land who exploited the farm workers. But the lyric verses could well be applied to the alimentation crisis like the one happened a week ago. After all, what is the cucumber guilty of?
The world press of yesterday informed that Germany has declared the Spanish cucumber as 'absolutely' innocent', as if the poor little sod, so innocent, had been sitting in front of the Tribunal Court. The problem is that, the verdict, real and unappealable, had been sentenced days ago, just at the moment the German sanitary authority pointing finger at the Spanish cucumber as the culprit of the mortal intoxication in Hamburg. Any alimentary alarm always raises instant panic. Not just suspecting the cucumber but all the vegetables and fruits coming from the Spanish soil.
The economic consequences has been tremendous. The worst is that it had already caused an enormous impact in the sector of exportation of those, precisely by the recuperation of the consumption in Europe, was, as they thought, able to breathe a sign of relief.
The reaction of Spain in the face of the catastrophe of the 'cucumber issue' is of 2 types. The first: recuperate the tradition that came no less than in the 16th century, of denouncing a confabulation anti-Spain. The Germans, like the time the English of the perfidious Albian, the Jews or the Masons, will be the point of the lance. The 2nd reaction: much more relevant to now and foreseeable, consists of blaming the Government and in particular, Rubalcaba, for not putting his feet in the market, to the fruiterers of Berlin and to those responsible for the politics of agriculture and food of Brussels.
The press photo today showed the head of the Department of Agriculture and Alimentation, lunching with a few colleagues, on some dainty little slices of cucumber - the poor cumber that has just recovered it's innocence.
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