DeSmog Launches Investigation Into Food and Farming Misinformation Ahead of EU Elections

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DeSmog Launches Investigation Into Food and Farming Misinformation Ahead of EU Elections

A large blue billboard stands outside a park in the town of Conegliano in northern Italy. On the left, a man pops a vast cricket into his mouth. On the right, are the words, “Let’s Change Europe before it changes us” – and the dates of the upcoming elections.   The poster – an advert for the country’s radical right party Lega per Salvini Premier – refers to a conspiracy theory that has swept across Italy in the last 18 months. Elites in Brussels…