Carlo Petrini, ɗan jarida wanda ya kafa ƙungiyar Slow Food don nuna adawa da zuwan gidan cin abinci na farko na McDonald's a Italiya, ya rasu yana da shekaru 76.
Petrini, wanda aka gano yana da ciwon daji na prostate a cikin 'yan shekarun nan, ya rasu a garinsa na Bra a yankin Piedmont na arewacin Italiya. Ya jagoranci Slow Food—wadda take yaƙi da al'adun cin abinci cikin sauri tun 1986 ta hanyar tallata dorewa da abinci na gida—a matsayin shugabanta har zuwa 2022.
Wata sanarwa daga ofishin yaɗa labarai na Slow Food ta bayyana Petrini, wanda kuma ya kafa Jami'ar Kimiyyar Abinci ta Gastronomic a Pollenzo, kusa da Bra, a matsayin "jagora mai hangen nesa kuma mai ilimin jama'a mai zurfin sadaukarwa ga amfanin gama gari, dangantakar ɗan adam, da duniyar halitta."
Ta hanyar aikinsa, Petrini ya "ƙirƙiri wani yunkuri na duniya wanda ya ginu a kan ƙimar abinci mai kyau, tsafta, da adalci ga kowa, yana haɗa al'ummomi, manoma, masu sana'ar abinci, masu dafa abinci, masu fafutuka, da matasa a duniya," in ji sanarwar.
Shugaban Italiya, Sergio Mattarella, ne ya jagoranci girmamawar a ranar Juma'a.
"Mutuwar Carlo Petrini ta bar gibi mai girma, ba kawai a duniyar abinci da giya ba, amma a cikin al'umma gaba ɗaya, a Italiya da ma bayanta," in ji Mattarella. "Hangen nesa da kuma ci gaba da bayar da shawarwari don dorewa, kiyaye al'adu, tallata al'adun gida, da mutunta muhalli sun haifar da sabon wayewar al'adun abinci da samar da shi."
Francesco Lollobrigida, ministan noma na Italiya, ya ce, "Ba kowa ne ke barin alama ba, amma Carlo Petrini ya yi." Mataimakin Firayim Minista Antonio Tajani ya kara da cewa Italiya ta rasa "babban jakada" na al'adunta.
Petrini da gungun abokansa ne suka kafa Slow Food a 1986 bayan zanga-zangar da aka yi game da bude gidan cin abinci na farko na McDonald's a Italiya kusa da Matakan Sipaniya a tsakiyar Roma. Petrini da abokan aikinsa sun raba faranti na taliya ga masu wucewa, suna ihu: "Ba mu son abinci mai sauri. Muna son abinci a hankali."
Gidan cin abinci ya bude duk da zanga-zangar, kuma yanzu akwai kusan wuraren McDonald's 800 a Italiya. Duk da haka, Slow Food ta ci gaba da yin tasiri mai girma a duniya kuma yanzu tana aiki a cikin ƙasashe sama da 160.
Ƙungiyar ta kuma yi tasiri sosai a Biritaniya, kuma Petrini abokin Sarki Charles ne, wanda ya dade yana goyon bayan noma na halitta. A watan Fabrairun shekarar da ta gabata, Charles da Sarauniya Camilla sun shirya wani maraice na bikin abinci a hankali na Italiya a Highgrove, tare da ɗan wasan kwaikwayo na Italiya-Amurka kuma mai son abinci Stanley Tucci a cikin baƙi. Charles da Camilla kuma sun ɗanɗana kayayyakin da manoma masu alaƙa da ƙungiyar suka samar yayin ziyarar jiha da suka kai Italiya a shekarar da ta gabata.
A 2004, mujallar Time ta kira Petrini "jarumin Turai," kuma a watan Janairun 2008, shi ne ɗan Italiya tilo da aka saka a cikin jerin mutane 50 na Guardian waɗanda za su iya ceton duniya.
