slow food movement slow food, an international non-profit organization
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Slow Food Movement
Slow Food, an international non-profit organization
Summary
Introduction
1. The international movement Begining Aims Means
2. Comparison USA/France Different problems Different food traditions
Conclusion
Introduction
"A hundred years ago, people ate between one hundred and a hundred and twenty different species of food. Now our diet is made up of at most ten or twelve species."
Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food
1. The international movement
The origine : In response to the opening of a Mc Donald in
Rome's famous Piazza di Spagna in 1986.
Great success during the last decade because of : The panic over mad cow disease The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease The debate over genetically modified food The psychosis of the avian flu
1. The international movement
The growth of the movement : 1980 : first idea of an association which takes care
of food quality 1989 : International Slow Food movement
founded in Paris 1990 : First international Slow Food congress in
Venice 1992-1994 : Creation of Slow Food Italy,
Deutschland and Switzerland 2000 : Creation of Slow Food USA 2003 : Creation of Slow Food France
Few figures about the movement :
20,000 members in 1995
Today more than 80,000 members in over 100 countries (35,000 in Italy)
Membership : anyone can become a member of SF for around 50$ / year
1. The international movement
The Aims
First aims : Oppose to fast-food Culture and promote good, clean and fair food.
The food we eat should :
Taste good Be produced in a clean, environmental way Receive a fair pay
The Aims
Secondary aims : Protect traditional local food and biodiversity
Examples of loss : 75 % of European food product diversity lost since
1900 93 % of American food product diversity lost in the
same time period 33 % of livestock varieties disappeared or near
disappearing 30,000 vegetable varieties extincted in the last
century, and one more every six hours
The Means
The Convivium : S.F. Movement’s basic organisational structure
in an area with cultural and culinary history
Local actions and activities :
Food and wine events “Taste workshop” Promotion of local “lost” food
The Means
The Ark of Taste : catalogue of forgotten and disappearing flavors and food
The sentinels : local projects to save and promote foods of the Ark of Taste by financing artisans and farmers who produce such products
The Means
International Events : Salone Del Gusto : the biggest
market exhibition of ecogatronomy
next edition 26-30 october in Turin
Terra Madre : world meeting
of food communities
Slow food on Film
2. Comparison USA/France
Slow Food is an international movement including many countries
But each country has is own reason for joining
Different problems
France (and EU) : loss of quality and variety
Subsidies for quantity Encourage intensive agribusiness No reward for quality
Don’t care of the integrity of the product to the area
Loss of traditional food
Different problems
Old and deep fast-food implantation
Nearly traditional
USA : 2 « opposites » movements :
American Gastronomical comunity : No political consciousness
American environmental movement : Only food allowed = tofu ( or soja )
Different food traditions
Different food tradition
The Ark of Taste
France ( 15 products ) Bigorre Gascony
Black Pig
Maine-Anjou Cow Breed
Pardailhan Black Turnip
USA ( 15 products ) American Buff Goose
Delaware Chicken
Crane Melon
Conclusion
Slow Food, an international non-profit organization : Its aim :
protect the pleasures of the table from convenience food and agribusiness
Its philosophy : promoting gastronomic culture developing taste education conserving agricultural biodiversity protecting traditional foods at risk of extinction
Conclusion
Such a movement attract critics : Slow food = Culinary wing of anti-
globalization movement Slow food accused of being elitist for
product selection
but also supporters : Slow life movement www.eatrealfood.org
www.eatrealfood.org
www.eatrealfood.org
Baby in action
Sources
Web sites www.slowfood.com www.slowfood.fr http://www.slowfoodusa.org/
News article http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010820/stille
Debate
USA created their own movement 3 years before France, what about that ?
Food : an important source of identity ?
Slow Food Movement or José Bové, which kind of action is the more efficient ?
Thank you for your attention
And don’t forget this famous phrase of the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach's :
"We are what we eat."