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Pope, Michelle Obama back Gusto fair

Pope, Michelle Obama back Gusto fair

Salone del Gusto in Turin promotes biodiversity, family farming

Turin, 23 October 2014, 19:21

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Pope Francis and Michelle Obama have got behind Italy's famed Slow Food movement's signature international food and wine event in Turin. The pontiff and the US first lady sent messages to delegates attending the opening of the 10th edition of the Salone del Gusto in the northwestern city on Wednesday.
    In a telegram signed by Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin Francis sent his "thoughts and best wishes" for the event organised by Slow Food in conjunction with the Turin city and Piedmont regional authorities. The pope also said he hoped the five-day fair might "encourage renewed commitment to ensuring that noone in the world is lacking necessary and healthy nutrition".
    The organisers' "commitment to protecting regional traditions and local flavours is making the difference for people throughout the world," said Michelle Obama, a strong advocate of healthy eating and exercise, in a video message to the event.
    "I want to thank you for all you are doing to promote a healthy and nutritious diet for our families and communities.
    Thank you also for raising awareness on these issues throughout the world," she said. "As you all know well, food is not just ful for the body.
    It is a way of expressing who we are as people, of showing our affection to friends, family and neighbours," Michelle Obama added. The First Lady expressed her enthusiasm particularly for Slow Food's 10,000 gardens in Africa initiative, a project that takes after her own heart. "I know how important it is to produce healthy food within communities," she said in reference to her own initiative to start a vegetable garden on the White House lawn.
    "It is a marvellous way to show young people where their food comes from and teach them the importance of a healthy diet.
    This knowledge will be passed on to their children. And so your work is fundamental not just for the young people of today but for future generations," she concluded. This year's Salone del Gusto has two main themes: family farming, which accounts for 90% of the agriculture industry and 98% of cultivated land; and the Arc of Taste, an initiative launched by Slow Food several years ago to save foods, crops and fishing, breeding and pasture methods that are at risk of extinction. "We have already saved 2,000 products," said Slow Food international secretary Paolo Di Croce. "Our aim is to reach 10,000 in the next four years." In a speech at the inaugural ceremony on Wednesday Slow Food president Carlo Petrini condemned a food system that he described as "criminal", urging intersted parties to "reject a logic of waste, of a system that does not valorise food and the communities that produce it".
    "You are the true defenders of biodiversity," he then told the 4,000 peasant farmers, artisans and animal farmers representing Slow Food's Terra Madre communities from all over the world.
    "People will come to your villages to ask for the species you are growing in order to survive. And you must not be afraid to defend your small species, the seeds, even if them seem small to you." "In Turin the absolute centrality of family farming will be reaffirmed. In this respect Italy is a formidable laboratory," said Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina highlighting the link between Salone del Gusto and next year's Milan Expo 2015 under the theme is 'Feeding the planet, energy for life'. However on Thursday Petrini criticised the Universal Exhibition, saying it still lacked "soul".
    "Either the next five months are used to create a soul and turn the event into an agora for community dialogue or it risks being a nice trade fair that will fail to go down in history," he said. The Salone del Gusto is expected to draw tens of thousands of visitors to the Piedmont capital in pursuit of food that is "healthy, clean and fair".
    Some 1,200 exhibitors are present to display their products and there is also a programme of cookery lessons, workshops, conferences and other educational initiatives.
   

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