Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini dies aged 76

Mr Petrini championed clean eating (AP)

Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food global grassroots movement promoting sustainable food production and local, traditional cuisine, has died aged 76 in his hometown in Italy.

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” after he died in the north-western Piedmont region.