Every day can be enriched by doing something slow.
Slow
Food began as a grassroots response to the expanding ‘fast
food’ industry in Europe. In 1989, delegates from fifteen countries
signed the manifesto that created the Slow Food movement. Slow Food has expanded
globally to 100 countries and now has 83,000 members. Slow Food seeks to protect
cuisines, regional dishes, ingredients, and small purveyors from the deluge
of industrialization and to restore pleasures to our fast-paced and hectic
lives.
Every day can be enriched by doing something slow - making
pasta from scratch one night, seductively squeezing your own orange juice
from the fresh fruit, lingering over a glass of wine and a slice of cheese
- even deciding to eat lunch sitting down instead of standing up. As each
of us changes our pace in life, slowing down, we will have an effect on
the whole.
• 75% of European food product diversity has been lost since 1900
•
93% of American food product diversity has been lost in the same time
period
•
33% of livestock varieties have disappeared or are near disappearing
•
30,000 vegetable varieties have become extinct in the last century, and
one more is lost every six hours
The mission of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity is to organize and fund projects that defend our world’s heritage of agricultural biodiversity and gastronomic traditions.
"We
envision a new agricultural system that respects local cultural identities,
the earth’s resources, sustainable animal husbandry, and the health
of individual consumers."
Local Slow Food goups are called 'convivia'. The best start is to contact
your local convivia, or start your own. Check the Slow Food International
site for info on countries not on this list.
Unites
States
- slowfoodusa.org/contact/index.html
Canada
- slowfood.ca/convivia.htm
Australia -
classic.com.au/wizard/slow.htm
Ireland -
slowfoodireland.com/
Germany - slowfood.de/
Italy - slowfood.it/
France - slowfood.it/
Netherlands -
slowfood.nl/
UK -
slowfoodludlow.org.uk/contact.html#other
International -
slowfood.com/
General
Information about Slow Food -
slowfoodfoundation.com/
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