Slow Food is an international movement founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. It was the first established part of the broader Slow movement. The movement has since expanded globally to over 100,000 members in 150 countries. Its goals of sustainable foods and promotion of local small businesses are paralleled by a political agenda directed against globalization of agricultural products.
Read more about Slow Food: Slow Food Organization, Slow Food USA, Slow Food UK, Slow Food Australia
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“They are tireless folk, but slow and sad
Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad
With none among them that ever sings....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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Nothing compared to the producing of them.”
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