SLOW Food international president and founder Carlo Petrini encouraged Australians to create ‘a new biodiversity’ during his Sydney Opera House presentation on 18 Oct 2009. The charismatic Italian – a former radio journalist – said that while Europeans had to defend historical biodiversity, Australians had to create a diverse food heritage. ‘Let the producers create this new biodiversity,’ Petrini said. ‘Let Australians use their creativity and become the protagonists of the future, as it happened with wine, as must happen with cheese, with beer, with tomatoes, and animal breeds. In this way you can defend your identity. In this way we can defend the future to be handed over to future generations.’

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Carlo Petrini at the Sydney Opera House [18 Oct 2009] 120 minutes

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Full presentation transcript [English]