"Liberalism is also able to speculate about food '
Meeting with Carlo Petrini, president of Slow Food
by Francesco Paternò
the Manifesto has become a kind of Pope Carlo Petrini, said Carlin, president of Slow Food International, Founder and much more. Receives five-day politicians and farmers, chefs and journalists from around the world and all it has a verb, a story, an anecdote. Australian embassy to the Quirinal that slips into our room to say hello, Carlin tells quell'allevatore of cows in Adelaide invites him to visit his estate. And it does accommodate on a plane. The Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre his reign, suspended between heaven and earth to explain why agriculture and its products have become the center of production and culture.
We talk about the real economy, one that is leading Slow Food in Turin these days?
This is indeed the real economy of food, which in the last 50 years has lost value to the point that has become almost an appendage of fun and talk about food is likely to intrude in the collective divertissment an elitist. But the story reminds us that humanity has worked, suffered and waged wars in order to ensure nutrition and how much we are in this context. Reconciling food true with the importance of food, agriculture and traditional knowledge, we are doing this. Especially since today a multitude of people is particularly grave in a historical period, as determined by an upheaval in financial matters. Liberalism, after people speculated on housing, energy and oil, as a backlash before the bubble burst, is still able to speculate on the food. Leading to increases in basic food for millions of people. And hitting the malnourished population, almost one sixth of the living, risen to these speculations.
Now the bubble has burst and we live with a dual feeling. On the one hand with concern for a future of crises and difficulties especially for the less fortunate, but also the other with a sense of liberation. By the end of this logic, which has become almost a single thought, while the subsistence economy was considered marginal.
Mica want to say that it is the revenge of Mother Earth?
Mother Earth somehow enjoy this historic defeat of the market economy, but does so with indignation. Why a global political community that has not been able to raise $ 30 billion a year to reduce the number of malnourished in a fortnight has found 2 trillion to protect banks finance rogue accomplices.
The road is still long but there is no doubt that in this historic defeat we perceive the certainty and the need to be given more attention to agriculture, to knowledge updates, new sustainable technologies and the search for clean and renewable energy.
We returned at once to public aid. For banks and industry, agriculture, however, there is silence. In this area there have been public assistance benefits especially to those landlords and not to small, in the north of the world are used to pay the big productions to then dumped in Africa and poor countries. Now we need to point to the small-scale farming that protects the landscape and is ready to engage in new technologies, a topic unfortunately not yet in focus. I think that the peasants be a key player in the advancement of the third industrial revolution. The first was that of the steam engine, the second that of electricity, both supported by the fossil fuel. This will be the third one that will increase the production of renewable energy. Small businesses can create micro-enterprises to produce their own energy. That's why I'm against nuclear power but also against large concentrations of solar energy. Many small entities are the answer! The basis of sustainability, there is the refusal of waste, reuse and recycling, already in the practices of farmers. There is the possibility of virtuous alliance between the new energy manager see the business and agriculture. Go by the farmers, and listen to them.
Food and future are a cultural issue, then. But we are also in a country that is cutting funds for the knowledge, school, university, research, publishing. What to do? is a complicated time. Should be resolved ahead of the speech food as one of the true virtuosos of vital relationships. Food, agriculture, environment, sustainability, combating climate change, health, education, conviviality. If we laugh this value to food, the music changes. But from this point of view of cultural work is still immense, because equity is not the right nor the left. Yes, even our beloved left did not catch this change, this new policy. You are the poster of the exception that proves the rule. Have always been aware of these issues and for example your address book Earth Earth put on page 2 of the paper is a very strong sign.
you close? I see a resurgence in this country's vaunted pragmatism, government budgets factory Italy, as if we should bring into line all those little savings make it or not virtuous because they are too expensive, relegating culture and knowledge in a non-productive. It goes without saying that if I speak so I think everything is a waste. But it is not. From time immemorial, culture, free information and training of individuals are a precious good for the economy. If it passes this mechanism, it's like a snowball effect, where the owner of the steam decides what goes and what is wrong and cuts. Except maybe then ask everyone to go back to being consumers.
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