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  • From: "Mr Lucky" <steve AT mrlucky.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Slow Food
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:00:17 -0800

I think it's a well-intentioned group that doesn't always do the right thing, if that makes sense.
If you have a few minutes, you may enjoy my story:
http://ranchogordo.typepad.com/rancho_gordo_experiments_/2007/05/slow_food_vs_th.html

I think the group is bigger than the personalities that run it and individual chapters are very different. Some very pro-active and many, as Allen says, top dollar drinking clubs. Sometimes I think they're more an aesthetic than anything else.

I was very nervous to see they were involved with SSE. I have a wait and see attitude, but I do hope they pull it together.

Steve

Rancho Gordo
New World Specialty Food
www.ranchogordo.com


----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Balliett" <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
To: <farmersue AT hughes.net>; "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Slow Food


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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