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Animal Welfare: citizens and farmers together for the future of breeding

21 April 2022

The fight for sustainable, animal-friendly farming is one of the focal points of the Slow Meat campaign, and part of the daily work the Slow Food movement undertakes with producers, consumers, chefs, technicians, and institutions. The welfare of farmed animals is interconnected with the health of people and the environment: the farm, in its entirety …

Why Attacks Against the EU Farm to Fork Strategy Completely Miss the Point

9 February 2022 Alice Poiron

Since its release, the EU Farm to Fork Strategy has been repeatedly attacked and questioned by industrial farm lobbies, a number of conservative MEPs, and agri-business firms, which the publication of two controversial “impact studies” has only kept fueling. But what they always omit to say, is that these studies are partial and incomplete. Two …

Nature Needs Agroecology

12 May 2021 Francesco Sottile

Francesco Sottile, agronomist and member of Slow Food Italy’s Executive Board, comments on the paradoxes between the urgent need for sustainable agriculture, and the reality of what is happening in negotiations rooms and in the fields. This is without doubt a complex period for the planet’s agriculture, a period in which the hiatus between what …

Civil Society Demands the CAP that Supports Sustainable Farming

16 June 2020

Ahead of the final vote on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a broad coalition of civil society organizations calls on the European Parliament to reshape the EU’s agricultural policy and to make it more sustainable. Between 2005 and 2013 the EU lost 3.7 million farms – a drop of 26%. These numbers, first and …

Across Europe, Slow Food calls for Good Food and Good Farming

9 October 2018

Slow Food is joining the European Days of Action calling on decision-makers to support a sustainable transition of food and farming. The European Days of Action for Good Food and Good Farming will take place across Europe on October 27 & 28.

Product of [redacted] – Where is US meat really coming from?

29 August 2018

Picture yourself at a grocery store, you’re doing the shopping for the next few days, and you’ve got a hankering for some beef. As a conscientious and discerning consumer, you adhere to the principles of Slow Meat, you eat less than average, and you choose better quality products, raised sustainably and thoughtfully, respectful of animal …

Finca Slow! The New Slow Food Cuba Project

18 July 2018 Allyson Pérez

Cuba’s Slow Food network is building on the already established and fertile ground of agroecology in the island nation, pioneering the Slow Farms initiative, promoting and celebrating farms that practice sound and sustainable agroecology.

HRH the Prince of Wales met with 15 small-scale artisan food producers during a visit in Romania

31 May 2018 Michele Rumiz

Today HRH the Prince of Wales met with 15 small-scale artisan food producers, selected by Slow Food from throughout Romania, during a private visit to his cottage in Viscri, Transylvania.

Dumingag: Transforming Communities Through Sustainable Agriculture

7 September 2017 Paula Zayco Aberasturi

I donned all the relics and charms I had for a safe travel. I have never been to Zamboanga, the side of Mindanao close to a so-called red zone and so St. Christopher, sacred geometry and Lapiz Lazuli stones chaperoned me on that trip. I was to land in Ozamiz and then arrange for a …

The Importance of Feeding Animals

27 May 2015

Some feed them with wheat, rye, grass, lucerne and cooked apples; other with potatoes, wheat and barley. And the results are interesting: the meat of free-range pigs has been proven to be considerably superior to that from industrial production.