[Market-farming] Slow Food

Allan Balliett aballiett at frontiernet.net
Thu Jan 24 20:58:06 EST 2008


Sue -

A great food education and preservation organization internationally, 
with some great local organizations in the USofA.

An organization that has failed to pickup the ball nationally in the 
USofA and, in many ways, has slid from a mission of sustainable 
conservation to being 'just another (high dollar) drinking club.'

My biggest complaint about Slow Food in the USofA is that it tends to 
promote and support 'Gentlemen farmers' over grassroots people.

Also, unfortunately, if past experience means anything, someone from 
Slow Food USA will contact me about the remarks I've made in this 
post.

Here's hoping that somehow the spirit of SLOW FOOD's Terra Madre 
catches on in the USofA!

-Allan Balliett
Shepherdstown, WV


>Sorry I am so stupid, but can you all tell me about Slow Food? I am 
>probably the only one that doesn't really know about this. I looked 
>at the website, but still, I don't know if this is a good 
>organization or not.
>Thank you,
>Sue Wells
>Vermont
>
>
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