How Many of Those Organizations Are Associated with the WEF?

Serious question.

Slow Food has joined almost 200 organisations in the call for a radical TRANSFORMATION of corporate food systems and an urgent re-direction of the @FoodSystems Summit to re-align with the utmost imperatives of peoples and the planet #FoodSystems4People @CSM4CFS pic.twitter.com/kGlT6Kaq8n

— Slow Food (@SlowFoodHQ) March 18, 2021

Slow Food Not Necessarily Aligned with WEF

They could just be concerned with humane, sustainable ranching, but it still doesn't look good.

EU launched "Become a Beefatarian", an absurd campaign, supported with public funds, which invites European citizens to increase their meat consumption, without questioning environmental sustainability, animal welfare or climate justice. FULL ARTICLE 🔽 https://t.co/eBwlmhXziX

— Slow Food (@SlowFoodHQ) December 3, 2020

“There are any number of farm families and rural economies that could be strengthened and thrive if they were the source of the supply for the major metropolitan areas in this study.” - @cadwego https://t.co/VylTPmOyBb

— Civil Eats (@CivilEats) December 3, 2020

Michael Pollan retweets:

Can Local Food Feed Big Cities? Yes, if We Cut Down on Meat | Civil Eats https://t.co/SHeAZddgBF

— Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) December 2, 2020

Or, we could just stop living in big cities, especially if we know they are not sustainable. How's that for a change?

A news item along these lines...

Banning live export of animals for fattening and slaughter and limiting distance animals can travel in UK is important step forward for #animalwelfare but highlights the critical need to support and strengthen the UK’s local abattoir network @CAbattoirs https://t.co/D00xG7G1UI

— SusFoodTrust (@SusFoodTrust) December 3, 2020

Criminality in the Food System

Criminality in the food system: the struggle against the agro-mafias -- a Food Talk for #TerraMadre by Don Luigi Ciotti of @libera_annclm https://t.co/e3kqvotwbW

— Slow Food (@SlowFoodHQ) October 12, 2020

Neo Geographies and Possible Futures

🔴Tune in at 5pm for our first #TerraMadre conference: New Geographies and Possible Futures🌎 On the panel:
Franco Farinelli of @UniBologna @ageiweb , Paul Collier of @The_IGC , Virgine Raisson of @laboLEPAC , Davide Papotti @unipr @SlowFoodHQ https://t.co/aXS3xDg1d9

— Slow Food Europe (@SlowFoodEurope) October 8, 2020

Welcome to Terra Madre - a greeting from Carlo Petrini #TerraMadre https://t.co/q7TvPTlCK2

— Slow Food (@SlowFoodHQ) October 8, 2020

Terra Madre 2020 launched today! https://t.co/SXFDyrSY9Y

— Slow Food USA (@SlowFoodUSA) October 8, 2020

Carlo #Petrini a #WineNews: “puntare su un'#economia di prossimità per uscire dalla #crisi”. L’#agricoltura delle #comunitàrurali al centro delle riflessioni del fondatore @SlowFoodHQ (e di #TerraMadre #SaloneDelGusto 2020) https://t.co/POSQ0rTFEu

— WineNews (@WineNewsIt) October 2, 2020

Terra Madre 2020: il programma degli appuntamenti online https://t.co/iEeuJGTi03 @SlowFoodItaly e i programmi del #terramadre #salonedelgusto

— CnR / Blog (@comristorazione) October 7, 2020

food as the most complex & down-to-earth thing at the same time.
Here's the best summary of some past editions. "We shall overcome" is the video soundtrack, & it's the very best wish for the #TerraMadre community & the world at the moment❤️https://t.co/USFOv0At5L@SlowFoodItaly

— Francesca Monticone (@fraimonti) October 7, 2020

Slow Medicine

Post by Slow Food USA.

Carlo Petrini

Post by Slow Food USA.

Slow Food Youth Club

Post by Slow Food USA.

Yes Magazine Interview with Carlo Petrini

Italy’s “Slow Food” Pioneer: How My Love for Food Ripened into a Life's Work

Alice Waters

WSJ. Magazine 2013 Humanitarian Innovator
Alice Waters Makes the World a More Edible Place

A pioneer of farm-to-table cuisine and founder of the legendary Chez Panisse, WSJ. Magazine's Humanitarian Innovator of 2013 changed the way Americans think about food



Bon Appetit Slideshow

Related:
The Mother of Slow Food
Authors @ Google
"Food is Political"
Food is Political
A Conversation with Alice Waters

Videos at Epicurious





Alice Waters, Wendy Slusser, & David Binkle: Edible Education - S & F Lecture (2013)

Pope Francis and Slow Food

When the Pope Phoned Petrini

Terra Madre
Terra Madre
Terra Madre Documentary Films

Dr. Hirsch, "The Nexus of Energy and Risk in the 21st Century"

Misc.
MGTOW - Dalrock: Why aren’t men responding to economic signals?

The world you have made:

Of the people I know who have graduated college, less than half are gainfully employed. Worse, most of the ones who are employed are women. In my major, women made up the majority. 2/3 of them have jobs in the field. I’m unaware of another male I graduated with who has a job in it. Worse yet, a lot of the men like me doubled down and took extra concentrations and minors in with our degrees. Along with writing, I studied media/critical analysis and Public Relations. Essentially, I crammed an extra year into college into my four years to stay competitive in a competitive field.

As to whether the girls could write better, I must answer with a resounding “NO.” Their research papers, which I often proofread, took naive positions and failed to argue articulately whereas I typically chose an uphill position and argued it with robust reasoning and heavy sourcing. More than a few profs privately admitted my papers constructively challenged their world-views. So why, then, did the girls get the jobs? Surely companies want to hire better writers, particularly ones with GPAs above 3.5 and other honors associations, additional education and accreditation in the field, and a robust sense of communication and argumentation. (White women college grads are second only to Asian men in post-baccalaureate employment levels

It all comes down to the shifting corporate environment. A half century of government puppeteering, law suits, and sensitivity trainings have rendered companies deaf to reality. The corporate attitude takes no risks. The productivity of one man cannot compare to the financial risk that he might make an off-color remark that somehow triggers a woman to sue him and the company for supposedly subjecting her to his comment. The supreme irony is that, despite the playful joking attitudes of men in the workplace, women accomplish much less. Companies either willfully ignore this or are too scared to act on this fact.

And now, let’s return to what men have been doing. I call this the Scott Pilgrim phenomenon. Where men have encountered resistance to even their most sincere and dedicated efforts, they have assumed a fatalistic attitude towards achievement, especially since they have no family. With very few reasons to give more than a minimum hoot that they have accomplished nothing, they settle into the solipsistic world of drinking, video games, bad TV and other nonconstructive pursuits. (I grew up with video games and still enjoy them, however I treat it as I do TV and limit my use)

The truth is that when faced with difficulty and no rational cause to weather it, men retreat to the hibernation state and care only about basic comfort and enjoyment. Men, by nature, are not lazy. However, a combination of the “everybody’s special” culture, institutional resistance to their presence in the labor force, and the lack of real liabilities like a family hardly persuades men to better themselves and become more productive. The reason men marched into coal mines to do back-breaking labor had little to do with personal motivation and everything to do with familial provision.

Slow Food Quickens the Pace

The Trader Joe's Lesson: How to Pay a Living Wage and Still Make Money in Retail

A Prepper Series: The Lights Out Saga

We Are Made for Cooperation

Terra Madre 2012

Some Koreans in hanbok at the beginning of the video.

Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre
Terra Madre
Terra Madre at Home

Related:


Food Myth Busters - FB

Another Supporter of Proposition 37

Slow Food International Congress Adopts Statement in Support of California's Proposition 37, To Label GMOs

Items of Interest, 9 November 2011

The Big Ideas podcast: EF Schumacher's 'small is beautiful'
"Economist Andrew Simms and Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting are among those joining Benjamen Walker to discuss the legacy of Schumacher's 'Buddhist economics'"
mp3)

Book Review: Radical Gardening: Politics, idealism and rebellion in the garden
by Chuck Morse (EB)

BALLE: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy

New Dream Mini-Views: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy from Center for a New American Dream on Vimeo.

"This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor (julietschor.org)."

Italy's co-ops form a different sort of economy (archive)

Slow Food USA: Have a Slow Food Thanksgiving

Kelley Vlahos, The Ministry of Truth: Justices Invoke 1984

OWS:
Tomgram: Frances Fox Piven, The War on the Home Front
Talking with Matt Taibi
End Bonuses for Bankers

Richard Heinberg, MEMO TO THE #OCCUPY MOVEMENT (A Post Growth Economy)


The Roots of the Protest by George Leef
Occupy Wall Street might never have started If politicians hadn’t oversold higher education.



Guerilla Gardening at Occupy Wall Street

Peak Oil:
Eric Curren, Who Will Sound the Peak Oil Alarm
The biofuel grind by Tom Murphy (EB)

Collapse:
Three paths to near-term human extinction

Catholic:
College of St. Mary Magdalen: New England College Celebrates EF and OF, Ad Orientem

Catholic Life After the Ivy League: The Church of Our Saviour, NYC
(One of my favorite spots in New York. I still haven't been to St. Vincent Ferrer. Next time I'm in the city, perhaps.)

Word on Fire: Spirituality: The Monks of New Melleray
New Melleray Abbey

Music:
Four the Record: Miranda Lambert Comes to Terms with Herself

CFSC 15th Annual Conference: Food Justice: Honoring our Roots, Growing the Movement Community Events

Free and open to the public, November 4 - November 8

Community Food Security Coalition 15th Annual Conference

More of Carlo Petrini

Carlo Petrini: A Night at The Opera

Parts 2, 3, 4

Some more recent appearances:

another clip from the same occasion

Preserving biodiversity, promoting local foods: An interview with Slow Food-USA’s Gordon Jenkins by Janeen Madan (EB)

I think Mr. Jenkins is engaging in a bit of wishful thinking when he says:

I think we’re approaching a historic opportunity with the next Food and Farm Bill. As far as I can remember, never before have so many people been aware of its impact on their daily lives and the food that is available to them. I hope to see the next Bill prioritize making healthy food more available and affordable. And I hope it levels the playing field for farmers who want to make a living growing food they can be proud of.

Slow Food USA

Changing the world, one bite at a time by Brian Halweil (Original)

Slow Food Nation: An Evening with Carlo Petrini