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Cheese 2021: Slow Food Commits to Promoting Animal Welfare in Europe

24 September 2021

Slow Meat campaign to be a priority for the movement over the next three years. “Consider the animals”: This theme was the guiding thread that ran through four days of meetings, debates, tastings and educational activities at Cheese, the international event organized every two years by the City of Bra and Slow Food with the …

Let’s Feed the Peace: a Campaign from the Slow Food Network

23 September 2021

The Alimentemos la Paz (Let’s Feed the Peace) campaign (September 21 – October 22, 2021) was launched by Slow Food Colombia, with the aim of promoting peace through good, clean and fair food, as a way of making a positive contribution to our social environment, and to respond to the violent and desolate reality that …

Slow Food Heroes: together we grow collective power!

23 September 2021

In the Philippines, what started as a four-month food relief drive in the early days of the pandemic has turned into a sustainable food security initiative. The Slow Food Community Sari Sari has been able to make a difference against the Coronavirus

Slow Food Netherlands launches campaign ‘The Ark in Season’

18 September 2021

Slow Food the Netherlands recently published the book ‘de Ark van de Smaak in Nederland’ (the Ark of Taste in the Netherlands). They underline the fact that the publishing of this book is only the beginning. The purpose of this book is not just to be read; there’s work to do. To promote the book …

To Make Good, Healthy Cheese you need Natural, Diverse Meadows

18 September 2021

In Italy, stable meadows are disappearing through the abandonment of the countryside and soil consumption. Across Europe they occupy a surface area as large as France, and the most flourishing meadows are found in Ireland, Spain and Portugal. They’re fundamental for maintaining biodiversity, be it vegetal or animal, and for the diet and well-being of …

Once upon a time there was Cheese: a message from Carlo Petrini

16 September 2021 Carlo Petrini

Friday, September 17th, 2021 we’ll inaugurate the 13th edition of Cheese, which is now in its 24th year. If i think about the young people who are beginning their studies at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in these same days, i realize that when Cheese started they weren’t even born. And so it’s with them …

Slow Food Heroes: a 4.0 shepherd helps Covid care units

16 September 2021

Slow Food Heroes is a project financed by European Cultural Foundation, with the contribution of CRC Foundation. This week we’ll tell you the story of Leonardo Angelucci, who donated the entire proceeds from the Easter farm product sale to a Covid hospital.

The “Bees and Farmers” Tour Meets Pope Francis

14 September 2021 Alice Poiron

On September 8, representatives of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) “Save Bees and Farmers” met with Pope Francis in Rome, thus concluding their week-long “Bees and Farmers” tour in 8 different Italian cities, to promote the initiative to save pollinators, biodiversity and those who cultivate it. As the European Citizen Initiative (ECI) “Save Bees and …

Three Sessions on the Links Between Food and Climate

14 September 2021

The COP26 is right around the corner! As part of its Climate Action Initiative, Slow Food has concocted a tailor-made programme of three training sessions for you. Do you wish to know more about the climate crisis and the COP26? Are you eager to learn what Slow Food is doing to help tackle the climate …

Mother Noella Marcellino and the Promise of Cheese

13 September 2021

For most people, the first images that come to mind at the mention of biodiversity are of wild fauna: swarms of tropical fish around a coral reef, or birds-of-paradise in the rainforest. Slow Food has been working for decades to broaden that image to all the domesticated plant varieties and animal breeds which human beings …

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