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Slow Food at the Third Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD

10 February 2017

Today marks the the opening day of the third Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD. The Forum will take place in Rome from February 10-13, 2017 and will focus on the economic empowerment of indigenous peoples, particularly women and youth.

Pangasius: why is it being farmed intensively along the rivers of Southeast Asia?

10 February 2017 Silvia Ceriani

Freshwater species like the pangasius – endemic to the Mekong Basin, Chao Phraya and Maeklong in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand – have been an important food source for local communities for centuries. In the 2000s it began to be raised intensively, quickly becoming one of the most common farmed fish species.

Chlorinated chicken and other marvels of modern American farming coming to the UK?

6 February 2017 United KingdomUnited States

New bilateral trade agreements between the UK and the USA could see the former being forced to lift restrictions on food imports from the latter. What would that mean for British consumers?

Slow Food rememebers Predrag Matvejevic

3 February 2017

The writer Pedrag Matvejević died yesterday in Zagreb, Croatia, aged 84. He lived for many years in Italy, where he had been professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Sapienza in Rome. Slow Food had the honor and pleasure of hosting Pedrag in an early edition of Salone del Gusto, and published some of his articles in our Italian-language membership magazine.

Saving the flavors of centuries: against Flavr Savr and the genetic engineering of taste

2 February 2017 Silvia Ceriani United States

They’ve made tomatoes longer-lasting, disease-resistant, and firm. But so far, GM tomatoes have always lacked that one vital factor: flavor! With recent research focusing on trying to improve the flavor of GM tomatoes, we ask: why bother, when nature already provides it?

First offical Slow Food conference in Iran

30 January 2017 Iran

Slow Food holds its first official conference, entitled “First International Gastronomic Tourism & Slow Food” today, January 30th 2017, in Mashhad, Iran, from 8:30 to 11:30 am.

Cameras to be introduced in French slaughterhouses

26 January 2017 Silvia Ceriani France

A proposed law passed by the French parliament at the start of January will bring video surveillance to slaughterhouses, enabling their interiors to be documented in order to allow more rigorous and effective controls and to verify that animal welfare is being respected.

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