Traditional and Innovative Breeding 8 February 2016 With waste reduction, local slaughtering and greater attention to animal welfare and meat quality, many traditional farmers are telling a more avant-garde story than intensive factory farms.
Goose Breeds 12 January 2016 Geese have long been farmed in Russia, but in recent years the number of geese from local breeds has started falling without warning, worrying local farmers…
The Strange Case of the Agū Pig 16 November 2015 On Okinawa, the largest of the Ryūkyū Islands, in the far south of the Japanese archipelago, Takada Masaru raises Agū pigs, a breed that has come close to complete extinction.
The Vocabulary of Diversity 10 November 2015 The diversity of livestock and crop variety can be considered a dictionary of sorts, thanks to which it is possible to adequately answer the needs of the great diversity of territories…
Slow Meat 2015 Brings Everyone to the Table to Fix the Industrial Meat System 9 June 2015 A vegan, a butcher and a cow walk into a room… It’s not the start of a bad joke, but one of the taglines of Slow Meat, the most recent Slow Food event that took place from June 3 – 6 in Denver, USA.
