Remember, putting pineapple on pizza is cause for justifiable homocide in Italy.
Almost incomparable to anywhere else in the world, food and culture are closely intertwined in Italy.
I can only imagine what distress inserting corporate DNA genes into native arborio rice might cause.
” food and culture are closely intertwined in Italy.”
An awful lot of ChiCom money has been flooding into Italy over the years.
Maybe they don’t want Arborio, maybe just plain contaminated Sticky Rice like in Ping land.