Slow Food

I have always been a foodie and I abhor fast food. I also am a follower of the Slow Food movement and because I honestly couldn't have described it better myself, here is an excerpt from Wikipedia... For the article in its entirety: Slow Food

"The Slow Food movement was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy as a resistance movement to combat fast food. It claims to preserve the cultural cuisine and the associated food plants and seeds, domestic animals, and farming within an ecoregion. It was the first established part of the broader Slow movement. The movement has since expanded globally to over 83,000 members in 122 countries.

The Slow Food movement incorporates a series of objectives within its mission, including:

• forming and sustaining seed banks to preserve heirloom varieties in cooperation with local food systems
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• developing an "ark of taste" for each ecoregion, where local culinary traditions and foods are celebrated
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• preserving and promoting local and traditional food products, along with their lore and preparation
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• organizing small-scale processing (including facilities for slaughtering and short run products)
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• organizing celebrations of local cuisine within regions (for example, the Feast of Fields held in some cities in Canada)
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• promoting "taste education"
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• educating consumers about the risks of fast food
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• educating citizens about the drawbacks of commercial agribusiness and factory farms
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• educating citizens about the risks of monoculture and reliance on too few genomes or varieties
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• developing various political programs to preserve family farms
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• lobbying for the inclusion of organic farming concerns within agricultural policy
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• lobbying against government funding of genetic engineering
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• lobbying against the use of pesticides
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• teaching gardening skills to students and prisoners
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• encouraging ethical buying in local marketplaces

From time to time, Slow Food intervenes directly in market transactions; for example, Slow Food was able to preserve four varieties of native American turkey by ordering 4,000 of their eggs and commissioning their raising and slaughtering and delivery to market."

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Here is a lovely book to savor...
The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, Recipes (April 2008)
by Corby Kummer, Eric Schlosser (Foreword), Susie Cushner (Photographs)

Other links:
http://www.slowfood.com/
http://www.slowfoodusa.org
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