Carlo Petrini, the Italian founder of the Slow Food movement, died on Thursday aged 76.
Petrini died after a long illness at the age of 76 in his hometown of Bra in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, the Slow Food movement announced in a statement online.
Petrini founded Slow Food in the mid-1980s with the aim of promoting a "right to enjoyment" and to good, clean and fair food for everyone as a reaction to the spread of fast-food culture.
