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Behind the Scenes at the Migrant Film Festival

28 June 2017 Buket Soyyilmaz Italy

The University of Gastronomic Sciences, the educational institute founded by Slow Food in 2004, held the Migranti Film Festival on June 10 – 12 at the university campus in Pollenzo, Italy. The film festival called attention to issues relating to migration, particularly second generations, coexistence, identity, and multiculturalism. Abderrahmane Amajou, coordinator of Slow Food International’s …

Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance Chef Bledar Kola is Committed to Educating Children

28 June 2017 Albania

The Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance (SFCA) was launched in Albania in June 2015 and currently has twenty-one active chefs in the country. Bledar Kola is one of them, known for community-building and inspiring others around the world. Bledar left Albania for London as a teenager and worked his way up the kitchen career ladder. He …

Some Like it Raw – Cheese 2017 focuses on raw milk cheeses and naturalness

27 June 2017

Cheese 2017, the international event organized by Slow Food and the City of Bra dedicated to high-quality and artisanal dairy products, will be held in Bra (Italy) from September 15-18 2017. The event, which celebrates its twentieth birthday this year, has gradually built an international network of cheesemakers, shepherds, cheesemongers and affineurs, the people who …

Edu-Kitchen: taste education in Romania

26 June 2017 Michele Rumiz Romania

Slow Food Turda and its leader, Marta Poszonyi, have started a new project, Edu-Kitchen, promoting food and taste education to kids and students throughout Romania. This initiative is just the latest in over 10 years of actions aiming to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable food consumption among the youth and the general public. …

What’s the Difference Between a Slow Food Presidium Cow and an Industrially-raised Cow?

25 June 2017 Buket Soyyilmaz

Did you know that, compared to thirty years ago, the energy needs of the Holstein-Friesian dairy cow have increased by 25%? Another fun fact: the Holstein-Friesian cow, the most widely-used dairy cow in the world, has lost performance due to stress, udder diseases and motion sickness.

Glyphosate Malaise: Are Ridiculously Cheap Foods and Clean, Tidy Fields Really Worth the Cost?

20 June 2017 Cinzia Scaffidi

Slow Food discusses the issues around what is the most commonly used active substance in agriculture today and offers tips on avoiding it in the foods you eat or grow.

The Dairy Industry and Climate Change

20 June 2017 Buket Soyyilmaz

In 2010, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation (FAO) published “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector”, the first product of a much wider study that aims to analyze the livestock sector’s contribution to climate change. It is now known that 18% of total greenhouse gas emissions come from the livestock industry – the largest share among all human activities that encourage climate change.

Carlo Petrini in China to pave the way for the next Slow Food International Congress

19 June 2017 China

Climate change, food, and biodiversity will be the issues at the center of the International Congress in the Chinese city of Chengdu…

Report: GMOs in Tasmania

19 June 2017 Slow Food Hobart Australia

There has been a moratorium on GMOs within Tasmania in place since 2001, with the aim of preserving the island’s reputation for “clean, green and quality” products. In January 2014 the Tasmanian Minister for Primary Industry publicly announced that: “The Tasmanian Government’s position is to maintain a moratorium on the commercial release of GMOs to …

Spain: biodiversity protection relies on organic gardens

16 June 2017 Giulia Capaldi Spain

In Spain, the cultivation of GM crops has been legal for some time now, but numerous civil and community organizations are opposed to this type of agriculture, which puts local biodiversity at risk.

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