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Slow Food founder pushes fair fare

Carlo Petrini, a 60-year-old Italian, is on a mission: He wants cheap, mass produced foods laced chemical fertilizers and artificial flavors to be replaced by safer, high-quality, and higher-priced, fare. For the past 20 years, Petrini has been promoting... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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