Good, Clean, Fair...

Schneider, Stephen. "Good, Clean, Fair: The Rhetoric of Slow Food Movement." College English 70.4 (2004): 384-401. Print.

Slow Food has [been] arguing since the late 1970s for a re-examination of how and what we eat (385).

Slow Food's rejection of the fast life connects the organization's concerns about culinary issues to other broad efforts to slow life down and step back from the encroachments of globalization and capitalism (385).

Carlo Petrini rebelled against the unrest regarding the politics of Italy and decided to reject a violent response. In the 1970s, Italian wine became tainted and McDonalds opened a restaurant in Rome. In protest, Petrini was so moved by the influx of "fast" food, he and his fellows created the "slow" food movement.
Today, the Slow Food movement continues to grow, but is still limited to about 80,000 people globally.

Gastronomy (a word I apparently cannot say correctly) is the art of preparing good food. However, it also includes much more than preparation; it includes several other areas such as natural history, physics, chemistry, cookery, business, politics, and traditional and cultural dimensions of consumption.

Slow Food, then, celebrates the traditions of food preparation through education and preservation of diversity while still mindful of scientific advances to better enhance the biodiversity, culture, or traditions.

The Slow Food movement also is keenly aware of the capitalistic system in which it must operate in that production is the overseer of quality. Yet, Slow pushes for a local turn that champions not only the local economy but the locals that produce wholesome, healthy food. All while resisting the machine.

Check out this video for another disciple:

Understood as a cultural and symbolic form of resistance, slowness becomes an important rhetorical strategy. Insofar as slowness is understood as a more thoughtful and intense way of living, it also encourages critical engagement on a number of levels. ‘In urging people to slow down,’ Petrini says, ‘we are asking them to look around with greater interest, to be receptive to the details and flavors of the world’ (Slow Food Nation 183).  Understood in its simplest form, the act of slowing down forces us to ask how fast we need to live our lives. (398)

We have to look at the future of not only this movement, but also how we will engage and either add to the problem or add to the solution.

Food influences everything we do and sustains our very existence. I believe I was correct when I said in class that every reading, in some way, can be redirected to be relative to food and nutritional intake. As we continue in class, I ask us to reflect upon how important food is and will be in our collective future. And although I don't believe a massive change can be made into the Slow Food direction, some and constant steps can be made to better our world.

One runs a marathon one step at a time...

(here is the link to the families from different places and their nutritional intake for one week)
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