When you think of Sicilian cuisine, the first thing that comes to mind are the cannoli famous for being one of the most delicious cake in the world. "I cannoli" as they are called by the Sicilians are unique because their actual production is the union between art and love for this land.

Sheep farming and the production of cottage cheese and cheeses made Sicily famous throughout Italy and then worldwide. The production process, in fact, is just one of the fundamental elements that will ensure the success of a product of excellent quality, "the real secret is in the land," he says Giuseppe, pastor since the age of ten, he has inherited this land and his cattle from his father and his father from his grandfather, where the fields are rich in nutrients with their chemical make grass grazing genuine and substantial for the animals that eat it.

But the lives of Sicilian shepherds no longer profitable, (not that it ever really was), nor do simple, the dairy farms have industrialized the product by making the trade saturated with the consequent fall in prices. Here if you want to "live" you have to play the game the lowest price, Joseph explains to me that this has meant that many young people, including his son, have decided to leave the job of herding in order to find something better. All this has serious repercussions on the genuineness of the products especially those typical like cottage cheese or cheese, because of factory farming that leave little room for grazing in the fields preferring industrial food production to keep up with consumer demand.

"It will not last much longer" Joseph is convinced that this social policy of consumers who want everything now come to a crucial point, with no middle ground, that will see farmers, industries and consumers Italians engaged between two choices, the first one of slow food with all its pros, such as the establishment of genuine products, fresh and reliable as it is able to go back to local producer breeding with traditional methods grazing animals assuring consumers of the use of fresh food for animals with pastures free and against a slower production and slightly more expensive.

The second is that the industrialization of the product as pro has the possibility of a production faster and less expensive for the consumer and against the possibility that many companies may feed the animals with food industrial GMOs for faster production and targeted thus neglecting the flavors and the genuineness of the end product.

Giuseppe concludes by saying:

 

- It will prevail if the progress is welcome, but what we have to offer tourists and our children will ask us when you want to taste a piece of Sicily?