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I'm confused - at the beginning of the article Slow Food is a movement, at the end it is an organization with a budget. And the link didn't work. Anyone know about this? Rmhermen 21:45 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Not really. But is well known in Italy—do you know, out of habit I nearly wiki-linked Italy as if it might need clarification! And it’s easy in a way to see that it’s part of a strand of thinking (and behaving) about food that has been around for a long time. In England, where I live, CAMRA, an extraordinarily (not totally) successful pressure-group which campaigned in the 1970s for the preservation real (cask- or bottle-conditioned, live-yeast) ale, and the maintenance of local breweries with their varying styles, would be a prime example. Before that Elizabeth David stressed to us Brits the regional variations in French cookery. Much, much earlier William Cobbett told us to grow our own mustard because of the viciously poisonous additives that the commercial producers were employing. (Then again he wanted us to innovate by growing American maize and his wife told us how to turn that into Italian-style polenta dressed with pesto—as far as I can determine, the first written description of the Ligurian pesto in any language). But I am not sure that it would be very easy to write a good and (in Wikipedia’s slightly dreary sense—but then encylopaedias have to be a bit boring) NPOV article about the movement as opposed to the organisation. Oh dear, I am rambling. I think that this article needs a bit of a clean-up, but I am not convinced that it is absolutely vital immediately to make a big deal of distinguishing between the organization and the movement.

Today the link to the slow food site is working, albeit a bit slowly.

—Ian Spackman 20:20, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
"But is well known in Italy—do you know"

Ok I am not living in Italy but very close-by ;) I occasionally visit northern Italy and I have to say i have NEVER noticed ANY slow food thing there. (But of course Italy is famous for good food) That is not to say this movement might not be popular but could there be a better analysis of this movement please? I mean even in my country there are things I am totally unaware because it might be in the part far to the west :P


I like the ideas regarding food service that is;


An "ark of taste" for each ecoregion whose foods and flavors are preserved Preserving and promoting local and traditional food product know-how Teaching gardening, especially to students and prisoners Organizing celebrations of local cuisine within the region of production, e.g., the Feast of Fields held in some cities in Canada Taste Education

As these objectives promote cultural foods and the devlelopment of cultural cuisine, however why does this movment and most food consumer movements lobby for limitations on the Aricultural Industry, and lobby support of the family farm model over the corperate farm model.

Are there organisations devoted just to the afore mentioned objectives? --142.165.113.144 20:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Links

Currently we have links named

  • Become a member!
  • Slow Food USA Merchandise
  • Big Picture TV Free videos

What do they bring to mind? —Ian Spackman 21:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Slow Food UK

Incase anyone is wondering, or willing to debate my most recent edit, The UK Slow Food foundation was created recently, and here is a link to the Sloweb article about Slow Food UK. This article comes from Google, but the publication date is December, hence the wording of my editing. I'll change my diction on new years eve, I promise!

--Civilcasualty 18:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Construction of highway as directly increasing fuel costs

My edit on 07:04, 30 January 2008 Nahraana, removes the "the construction of motorways" as taking part in the "true cost of fuel". Shipping lane and military interventions OK, but why construction of motorways? (Maybe I am missing a point - but, as the edit undone didn't have any supporting reason in the "Edit description" field, I think it is good to discuss a bit) Nahraana (talk) 07:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)