The TIME 100 — Are They Worthy?

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CARLO PETRINI

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AGE: 57
OCCUPATION: Founder of the Slow Food movement
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: Founder of the organized rebuke to fast-food culture, arguing that one should only consume foods that take several hours to prepare. Today there are slow food organizations in 50 countries with more than 80,000 members.

CON: The group is still relatively small and largely under the mainstream public's radar—hardly a threat to the multibillion-dollar fast-food industry.

Tell Us Who You'd Pick

With so many different fields and individuals to choose from, we want to hear your thoughts on our list. Who should have been included and wasn't? Were any members of the list more influential than others?