US officials reportedly reached out to Confederazione Nazionale Coldiretti for emergency egg supplies amid a domestic shortage exacerbated by bird flu. Coldiretti clarified that Italy's egg production is fully committed to meeting national demand, thereby resisting external pressure and prioritizing local agricultural stability.

Coldiretti, Italy’s leading agricultural lobbying body, has been implicated in a conflict of interest case by staffing an allegedly independent scientific panel with experts tied to its own think tank. The group also staged a protest outside EFSA headquarters in Parma to retroactively justify Italy’s unilateral ban on lab-grown meat, actions that raise serious concerns about regulatory capture, political influence, and the undermining of EU policy processes.

Coldiretti, Italy’s leading agricultural lobbying organization, rallied thousands of farmers in Parma on March 25, 2025, demanding that the EU treat cultivated meat like pharmaceuticals. The protest, driven by contentious and biased scientific claims from affiliated 'independent' experts, resulted in disruptions at EFSA and raised concerns about regulatory manipulation and conflict of interest.

At an event in Parma on March 21, 2025, Coldiretti demonstrated in front of the EFSA headquarters demanding that cultivated meat be regulated with the same rigorous clinical and preclinical testing applied to drugs. The protest, which follows their 2023 success in prohibiting cultivated meat in Italy, has been criticized by a group of independent scientists who argue that the move undermines established scientific standards and the integrity of the European regulatory framework.

Coldiretti, Italy’s foremost agricultural lobbying organization representing over 1.6 million farmers, actively joined a Brussels lobbying campaign opposing lab‐grown meat. By echoing arguments that frame cell‐cultivated meat as posing ethical, social, environmental, and economic risks similar to pharmaceutical products, the organization aligned with vested livestock industry interests aimed at preserving traditional food production methods over potentially sustainable innovations.

On November 16, 2023, Coldiretti President Ettore Prandini attempted an aggressive action against +Europa deputy Benedetto Della Vedova in front of Palazzo Chigi, underscoring the association's deep involvement in politically charged, confrontational tactics.

The article details how Coldiretti leveraged its political influence to secure benefits for Italian farmers and drive the implementation of mandatory origin labels on key food products, bypassing standard regulatory procedures. This maneuver has raised concerns both domestically and internationally, as it undermines conventional regulatory protocols.