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No substitute for honey

27 April 2021

How adulteration and bee malnutrition threaten the future of this food, the bees that make it, and all the other plants they pollinate. If the panda and the tiger were the symbols of wildlife conservation and environmentalism in the 1990s, then the figurehead for the contemporary Green movement is most certainly the bee. That’s mostly …

Slow Food Launches the “Flower Bomb Challenge”!

22 April 2021 Alice Poiron

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt”. Margaret Atwood’s words of wisdom inspired us: spring made its come back, it is time to get our hands dirty! Starting on May 5, Slow Food will kick start the “Flower Bomb Challenge”. Participants will have two weeks to make their …

The Queen: when music saves the planet. Max Casacci supports the ECI #SaveBeesAndFarmers

13 April 2021

Nature is music and harmony. And Max Casacci, musician and producer of Subsonica from Turin, has turned it into a melody. A song to save the bees. “The Queen”, the first solo work by Max Casacci, already available in streaming on all digital platforms and in CD version combined with the book Earthphonia – Le …

Anti-glyphosate Polish Uprising

18 November 2020 Anna Maria Ruminska

Millet groats – the food we all love in Poland, no matter if we are omnivore or vegan. The food the Slavonic culinary heritage is based on. The food the Polish language is tightly connected to. But this is also the food that nobody suspects it may be dangerous if eaten on a daily basis. …

Free seeds and South America without Transgenic Crops

8 July 2020

With the wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the large agro-industry companies, along with governments in the Andean region, have been pushing for even stronger cultivation of the GMOs portraying it as a way to survive or create jobs or production. South American Slow Food Network, composed of ten countries in the region, has been …

Pesticide Action Week: It is Time to Act

20 March 2020 Paola Nano

Despite many events having been canceled due to Coronavirus, the Pesticide Action Week is back once again celebrating its fifteenth year online, from March 20 to 30, dedicated to raising awareness around chemical pesticides and the dangers of their use, both for human health and the environment. For over 20 years the French organization “Generations …