Taking It Slow

By Alternative Channel's Youth Contributor Cody Larocque

Life moves at an incredible pace in our modern world, information and ideas can travel across the world in a matter of seconds. With all this speed and instantaneous reaction to everything in our day where and when do we take the time to reflect and think about the days happenings? Traditionally, the dinner table was such a place where family would meet and discuss, but with the advent of a fast food society and fast living one organization aims to correct this direction as well as protect the planets biodiversity and adhere to the tenants of fair trade.

Slow Food International believes that everyone has the right to good, clean and fair food, as well as the pleasure that goes with it. Slow Food, believes whole heartedly that food should taste good, be organically grown there fore not harming human, animal and plant biodiversity. It also believes that food producers should be paid fairly for their hard work. Not wishing to be called consumers, they have taken the name of co-producers, because they both understand and support where there food comes from. The organization started in 1986 in Bra Italy, home of the organizations founder Carl Petrini, due to his home town’s association with wine production, white truffles, beef and fine cheeses which coupled with Italy’s love of fine food.

Slow Food has also started several other foundations which adhere to their core beliefs, most notably are the Slow Food foundation for biodiversity, the ark of taste which aims to protect artisan foods, animal and plant breeds which risk extinction due to marginalization and loss of public interest. Slow food also holds large gatherings such as, Presidia which help to connect local and artisan food producers to accessible and public markets and lastly Terra Madre which is a world meeting of food communities, for example Cheese producers from France would meet and discuss with cheese makers from Quebec, Canada. Slow food also believes that in sustainable farming and works to set up food communities in such a way. While not opposed to research by universities in genetically modified organisms (GMO) they believe that GMOs require accurate labelling because everyone has the right to choose what they ingest and choose to support by doing so.

The organization does not only concern itself with eco-gastronomy but at a larger scale wants to change the way we think about life. The Slow Food manifesto, professes that we have lost touch with what it truly means to be a Human being, and that our speed will kill us eventually. The fast life, which is equated to a virus, will and is not only disrupting our lives but also destroying our planet through the obsession with efficiency and over productive behaviour. It is certainly and attractive option given the state of modern food production and the vast number of disease scare associated with the modern food industry. Like Ghandi said “there is more to life than just increasing its speed” So here’s to the organization which took the slow and calm snail as its symbol.

For more information please visit Slow Food.

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The organization does not only concern itself with eco-gastronomy but at a larger scale wants to change the way we think about life

Like Ghandi said “there is more to life than just increasing its speed” So here’s to the organization which took the slow and calm snail as its symbol.

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Time flies and we don’t even notice we were here. lol

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But why we taking it slow?

Actually the whole world is getting slow

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