https://crystal.castle.cc/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.castle.cc/2011/02/22/a-chat-with-slow-food-founder-carlin-petrini/ Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:00:00 -0500 https://crystal.castle.cc/2011/02/22/a-chat-with-slow-food-founder-carlin-petrini/ <p><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/carlo_petrini.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1394" title="carlo_petrini" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/carlo_petrini.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p> <p>In 1986, the first branch of McDonald&#8217;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&#8217;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>