https://crystal.kitchen/tag/activism/ Recent content in Activism on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:00:00 -0500 https://crystal.kitchen/2011/02/22/a-chat-with-slow-food-founder-carlin-petrini/ Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:00:00 -0500 https://crystal.kitchen/2011/02/22/a-chat-with-slow-food-founder-carlin-petrini/ <p><a href="https://crystal.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/carlo_petrini.jpg"><img src="https://crystal.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/carlo_petrini.jpg" alt="" title="carlo_petrini"></a></p> <p>In 1986, the first branch of McDonald’s in Italy opened in the heart of Rome, at the Piazza di Spagna. As in many other countries, protesters howled and demonstrated. One man took decisive action.</p> <p>Carlo Petrini, or Carlin as he is known to Italians, has quietly grown from being a little-known left-wing journalist, to becoming the leader of one of the world’s largest food activism organizations. Concerned about the encroachment of multinational influence on traditional food culture, he built a resistance movement to defend and protect local food ecosystems, a counterpoint to the unrelenting onslaught of corporate hegemony.</p>