‘Social distancing is our way of life’, joked
a farmer from the US state of Nebraska on Facebook. But what may be true for
farmers certainly doesn’t apply to workers in slaughter facilities and meat
packing plants who work standing shoulder to shoulder. Few have protective
equipment, and with water and steam everywhere, masks would be useless within
minutes. In […]
School Gardens. Community Cooking. Lectures and Talks. Small Grants Program. Visits and Events. Responding to Consultations.
A handful of the activities Slow Food undertakes to benefit the communities that we live in, fighting for a fair and just food system for everyone.
What better way in our current crisis, to say that you support a better way […]
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These are unprecedented times in our food system; with consumers wanting to find good food and producers overwhelmed and often unable to trade as they were previously.
If you are a consumer
Google your favourite artisans, many are now selling online and need your custom now more than ever. Most have systems in place for no contact […]
...The current outbreak of the coronavirus #COVID19 has disrupted the lives of almost every country in the world. With Europe currently being an epicentre of the pandemic, many countries are under lockdown, with people confined to their homes, schools, and workplaces closed, and only essential businesses still operating.
As Slow Food, we want to send out […]
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Five years since the birth of Slow Food in the UK, 70 delegates from the
four Nations assembled in London early in 2020.
We were
joined by Paolo di Croce, Secretary General of Slow Food International, and Elisa Demichelis, our representative at Slow Food
International.
A very
stimulating and inspiring day provided a snapshot of where we are now as a
movement, […]
When was the last time you took things slow? We have come a long way from a time where ‘slow’ was considered a bad thing: slow transport systems, slow service, slow activities. Yet now, it is a heavily desired commodity. The pace of everyday life isn’t slowing down and it’s affecting the way we travel. […]
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In
the US series ‘Justified’ one of the protagonists, Ma Bennett (Margo Martindale),
the head of a rather dysfunctional Appalachian family, occasionally solved
problems by serving her unsuspecting victims a jar of moonshine laced with
poison. “Now for the hard part” was her dry comment once the drink started to
take effect.
Brexit
is a bit like one of Ma Bennett’s concoctions. […]
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For the first time in five years, the whole Slow Food Movement in the UK will gather together to celebrate our achievements, plot a way forward and debate the future of food and food movements.
In this year of Slow Food’s 30th anniversary, how can we tackle the food issues of […]
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“The
Cocktail Effect” is the title of a study just published by PAN[1],
the Pesticide Action Network and the Soil Association. And you guessed right,
this is not about what too many Bloody Marys will do to your head in the
morning and your liver in the long term, but about the ‘cocktail of pesticides’
we are exposed to […]