TORINO (ITALPRESS) – The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, is located at the Teatro Regio in Turin for the inauguration ceremony of the event “Terra Madre – Salone del Gusto”. Hundreds of people waiting from the morning to greet the head of the state, who made its entrance inside the applause, before the execution of the hymn of Mameli performed by the Chorus of the White Voices of the Regio. To welcome the mayor Stefano Lo Russo, the governor of Piedmont Alberto Cirio, the Prefect Donato Cafagna and the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida.
“The food and the production of food resources have become a strategic weapon, they are as for the target energy of the slender ongoing wars. Wars masked with reasons of national rivalry, but in reality expression of a will of power and dominion, with absolute disregard of the devastating consequences on populations, territory and environment“. So the President of the Republic in his speech. “Diversity is a patrimony that challenges us, genetic diversity has allowed mankind to develop in the millennia, without the care of this wealth man can compress it to destroy it and destroy it,” he added.
“Diversity is a crucial challenge for the future. This is the great theme of sustainability, essential for those who care about the future of their children and grandchildren. Biodiversity – the head of the state has observed – is also a great cultural and social question concerning people and habitats where they live. The contribution of Petrini has been in these years of great thickness, linking the protection of genetic biodiversity with the respect of different cultures and populations, making us know people and distant realities.”.
“The future must not be separated from a present that is omnivorous. We are all called to a great alliance, to a food community that together sees us engaged in peace and for peoples. Agriculture is a key sector, it must be developed and defended. Those who know the earth know well that you must never stop sowing, even in difficult times,” he added.
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CIRIO “GRAZIE A MATTARELLA PER PRESENZA COSTANTE IN PIEMONTE”
“President Mattarella has accustomed us to a constant presence in Piedmont, of this I am very proud and I also consider myself a privileged president because it does not happen to many colleagues to receive so many visits of the head of the state”. So the president of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio. “There has always been close – Cirio continued – We were close in moments of joy, we were close in moments of pain, I remember his presence in Brandizzo when he embraced the whole Piedmont community, we were close in moments of hope, his visits to the Sermig, and today we are close in a day that gathers all these feelings, the sensitivity and the feeling of joy, because Earth Mother is a feast, for another center.
“It is the moment of joy, but it cannot be dissociated, this year in particular, by the pain for a person who is physically not there, but there is: because Carlin Petrini is here, because Carlin Petrini is here with us. Someone said that in order not to let people die, we must continue to cultivate the ideals. And the ideals of Carlin Petrini are well alive, they are immersed in each of us and never make us forget the greatness of this man. Today it is enough to turn on any television channel, we talk about food, we talk about sustainability. Carlin talked about it forty years ago. His messages were so strong and powerful that without social, without the internet, they traveled from Bra, New Zealand, South America, all over the world.”.
LO RUSSO “TORINO GRATA A MATTARELLA”
“President, right these days she remembered that the school is open to all and that her task is to join, not to raise barriers. For these words, President, Turin is grateful. These are words that bring us back to the Constitution, to the responsibility we have towards each person and to what our Republic holds together: respect for differences, equal dignity, trust in a common future.” Thus the mayor of Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, in his intervention on the stage of the Teatro Regio in Turin at the inauguration of Terra Madre, turned to the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella present in audience. “Thanks to Slow Food, to all the institutions and realities that have worked in this edition, volunteers and volunteers and all the people that make Terra Madre possible, with the many voices and the many looks that come from all over the world – continued Lo Russo – From Turin, today, we choose to look at reality in the face. To recognize in differences a wealth. To take care of the land and one another. This is how we build together the world that we will leave to those who will come after us.”.
“Here people come from different countries. They bring with them cultures, traditions, stories. Here diversity has faces, voices, hands. It brings with it knowledge, seeds, gestures handed down from generation to generation. We know that differences can generate distrust and tension. And we know that we live in a time when there are those who blow up those tensions, presents diversity as a threat and nourishes fear to gather consent. Mother Earth gives a concrete answer: it creates opportunities to get to know each other and confront each other. When these stories meet, nobody loses their own: they all come out richer. This is the power of the Mother Earth. Turin knows. Our city has also grown thanks to those who have come from different places, bringing work, skills and stories that are part of us today. The meeting can become trust, and trust a shared future.”.
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