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Article thumbnail: An employee hangs a ham on a rack after greasing it with lard before moving to dry in storage as part of the Parma ham curing process at Pio Tosini Industria Prosciutti SpA in Langhirano, Italy, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. Russia recently announced a one-year ban on a range of food products from the EU and the U.S., in retaliation for sanctions against the country over Ukraine. Photographer: Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Stop selling Parma ham over brutal 'blood farm' links, supermarkets urged

A hormone used to produce Parma ham comes from farms in Iceland where pregnant mares are put in tiny pens so blood can be extracted

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'Why I quit my well-paid city job to open a bookshop in the mountains'

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'I used to make plastic. My new invention stops it from polluting the sea'

Article thumbnail: Ludovica Sannazzaro Natta Castello Sannazzaro Giarole Northern Italy Image via Writer James Imam
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Why gondoliers in Venice are having to collect rubbish to stay in a job

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'I became a mafia drug dealer aged 10. Now I try to help children avoid the same fate'

Article thumbnail: In the carpentry workshop of Milan Opera Prison - Italy's biggest prison - inmates sat at worktops are painstakingly crafting violins and violas from painted strips of wood. Called ?Metamorphosis?, the project sees Four prisoners -serving lengthy sentences - work on the violins five hours a day, three days a week. They are turning timber salvaged from boats dumped by people traffickers on the island of Lampedusa into an entire string orchestra that will tour the world. Picture from James Imam jamesimam@gmail.com
Article thumbnail: In the carpentry workshop of Milan Opera Prison - Italy's biggest prison - inmates sat at worktops are painstakingly crafting violins and violas from painted strips of wood. Called ?Metamorphosis?, the project sees Four prisoners -serving lengthy sentences - work on the violins five hours a day, three days a week. They are turning timber salvaged from boats dumped by people traffickers on the island of Lampedusa into an entire string orchestra that will tour the world. Picture from James Imam jamesimam@gmail.com
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Article thumbnail: FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi smiles during the "Campus Mentis" (Brain Campus) award ceremony at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, Italy, April 8, 2011. REUTERS/Max Rossi/File Photo
Article thumbnail: FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi smiles during the "Campus Mentis" (Brain Campus) award ceremony at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, Italy, April 8, 2011. REUTERS/Max Rossi/File Photo