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Carlo Petrini, Slow Food movement founder, dies aged 76
Italy’s president leads tributes to campaigner who spent four decades promoting sustainability and local cuisine
TL;DR
- Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, died at 76.
- He started Slow Food in 1986 to oppose fast-food culture and promote sustainable, local cuisine.
- The movement grew to become active in over 160 countries.
- Petrini also founded the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
- Tributes came from Italy's president, agriculture minister, and deputy prime minister.
- Slow Food's origins trace back to protests against the first McDonald's in Italy.
- Petrini was recognized by Time magazine as a "European hero" and by The Guardian as one of 50 people who could save the world.
- He was a friend of King Charles, a champion of organic farming.