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Greek Pensioners Might Resort to Eating Wild Greens for Sustenance

xorta_xorafi Greek pensioners might have to resort to collecting wild greens in order to feed themselves as the economy gets worse, says a BBC report.
Reporter Heidi Fuller-Love sees the Greek economic crisis from the point of view of a Cretan pensioner who is foraging in the mountains in order to sustain himself.
The protagonist of the feature is Mr. Giorgos, an 80-year-old retiree who invites the reporter to go foraging with him on Crete‘s Lassithi Mountains.
Mr. Giorgos says that his search for food depends largely on the weather. His “search missions” usually take an hour before he reaches his foraging place on the mountain. The reporter followed him and the hiking lasted one hour before Mr. Giorgos started collecting his greens. He filled two bags and then returned home to cook them.
The pensioner says that since 1981, banks were giving out loans for cars and life was good. Now, he complains, the high cost of living is crippling due to the economic crisis. He showed the reporter an 180-euro electricity bill for two months while his pension is just 500 euros.
“Soon these greens will be all that I have to eat,” Mr. Giorgos says.
Wild greens are the basis of the Cretan diet from the Minoan period, but with the economic climate in Greece deteriorating rapidly, foraging can become once again a way of life, notes the BBC reporter.

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