
What began as a resistence against the opening of a McDonald's near Rome's famed Piazza d'Espana and has grown to include over 800 covivia chapters. Some of what the slow food movement promotes is:
- sustaining seed banks to preserve heirloom varieties in coorperation with local food systems
- preserving local and traditional food products
- keeping production small scale
- promoting taste education
- educating consumers about the risks of fast food and agribusiness
- developing political tools to preserve family farms
- lobbying against genetic engineering and the use of pesticides and,
- encouraging ethical buying and teaching gardens for youth.
Tightwad thinks this is pretty, pretty cool. She's off to pick some locally grown blueberries to show her support.
2 comments:
I like the idea of the slow food movement. I don't see it much where I live, though. Food must be a theme today, I noticed on another one of my favorite blogs (Ultimate Money Blog) she also has a gripe with what's in our food: too many chemicals and pesticides! Maybe we should all start a small garden and eat more local.
Love this!
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