Palestinian Extra Virgin Olive Oil into the EU Parliament
Zaytoun on January 26th, 2009Luisa Morgantini
Vice President of the European Parliament
It will be distributed in all tables and restaurants of the European Parliament in Brussels and in Strasbourg, the olive oil produced in the Palestinian Occupied Territories and rigorously Fair Trade. Since long time, the EP utilizes Fair Trade products, thanks to the initiative by a group of MEPs, but it is the first time for a Palestinian product.
“It aims to be also a symbolic act – declared Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament and promoter of the initiative- but it will also be an important support to the Palestinian farmers’ cooperatives, women and men who continue to cultivate, to love and to defend their lands threatened and expropriated by the violence perpetrated by the Israeli military occupation, by the colonial annexation wall that goes on uprooting trees, demolishing houses and steeling the cultivated lands to the farmers. From now on eating in the tables or in the restaurant of the EP will be for me and for many others an emotion and also a solidarity act by seeing the Palestinian Label over this product that because of its precious flavour represents an hymn to the taste and to the fair trade”.
The extra virgin olive oil is produced by the PARC - The Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees- distributed by Oxfam
