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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. …

Sardinia: Milk and Cheese, Pastures and Herders

30 July 2020 Silvia Ceriani

Three million two hundred thousand sheep, twelve thousand eight hundred herders, thirty-three cooperatives. These are the numbers behind the primary sector of the Sardinian economy, to which we dedicated special attention during the last edition of Cheese, when it was going through a particularly difficult phase. We’ve supported Sardinian herders by telling their story and …

Rare Breeds Go Hand in Hand With Animal Welfare

5 September 2019

Every year billions of animals around the world suffer in terrible conditions. Those trapped in cages live particularly horrific lives. Slow Food supports the European Citizens’ Initiative “End the Cage Age” and has been supporting farming that respects the planet and animal welfare for over 20 years. Good livestock farming practices can be found among …

One Million EU Citizens Make History for Farm Animals

30 May 2019

As of today, one million EU citizens have signed the End the Cage Age European Citizens Initiative (ECI); the biggest ever political push for farm animal welfare. Slow Food joined forces with over 170 other animal welfare and environmental organizations across the EU to launch the #EndTheCageAge ECI, which aims to end the use of cages for farm animals across the continent. Today marks the collection of one million signatures—a first in the history of farm animal welfare.

Let us Rethink How we Treat Animals

6 May 2019 Jocelyne Porcher

To raise animals, we do not need cages, we do not need to dominate animals, we do not need to enslave them, they do not need to mutilate them. Jocelyne Porcher Over the past century and a half, science and industry have taken over and transformed the relationship we have with farm animals. The whole …

A Roadmap to Biodiversity – The COVCHEG Project Launches in Azerbaijan

19 April 2019

The COVCHEG project has mapped 40 local varieties of vegetables, fruits, traditional home-made sweets, animal breeds, wild plants and other specialties linked to the villages and climatic zones of the Greater Caucasus Mountains of Azerbaijan. Half a hectare of land, dotted with vines of the Madrasa grape variety, with its incredible 26% sugar content, is …

Slow Food presents “What you didn’t know existed: Endangered food from around the world”

18 April 2019

Slow Food presents: What you didn’t know existed. Endangered food from around the world The Food is Culture project is in full swing and held its first major event in Stockholm The artwork What you didn’t know existed. Endangered food from around the world was launched on March 29th at the Stockholm Spritmuseum. The work officially inaugurated …

Animal Welfare: a Tea with the Chickens from Cascina Santa Brera

16 April 2019 Alessia Pautasso

At Cascina Santa Brera, just outside Milan, Irene di Carpegna and her team take the comfort and happiness of their chickens very seriously, starting with a hot cuppa on a winter morning…

White Hens of Saluzzo on the Brink of Extinction: Caging them is not the Solution.

26 February 2019 Annalisa Audino

Slow Food protects small-scale and homemade productions that place important emphasis on animal welfare. Support the ECI against cages! Just a few decades ago, almost every farmstead in Piedmont reared some Saluzzo hens. As well as other farmyard animals, they were bred for family consumption and sold at local street markets to supplement the low …

It is Time to End the Cage Age: Sign the Petition!

11 February 2019 Annalisa Audino

Every year, all around Europe, almost 300 million animals go through life trapped in cages. It is time to say enough is enough! Together, we can end this system thanks to European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) End the Cage Age!