Slow Food founder and advocate of clean eating Carlo Petrini dies in Italy at 76

MILAN (AP) — Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food global grassroots movement promoting sustainable food production and local, traditional cuisine, died Friday at the age of 76 in his hometown in Italy’s northwestern Piedmont region, the organization announced.

Slow Food called him “a visionary leader and a public intellectual with a profound commitment to the common good, human relationships and the natural world.”

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