Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Today, we have over 85,000 members in 132 countries.
How Slow Food
achieves its goals
Ark of taste: The Ark of Taste aims to rediscover, catalogue, describe and publicize forgotten flavours. Its aim is to protect the small purveyors of fine food from the deluge of industrial standardization; to ensure the survival of endangered animal breeds, cheeses, cold cuts, edible herbs - both spontaneous and cultivated - cereals and fruit; to promulgate taste education; to make a stand against obsessive worrying about hygienic matters, which kills the specific character of many kinds of production; to protect the right to pleasure.
Presidia: If Ark products can have an economic impact, they can be saved from extinction. This is the simple reasoning behind the Presidia its there to promote artisan products; to stabilize production techniques; to establish stringent production standards and, above all, to guarantee a viable future for traditional foods. Through the Presidia the Slow Food Movement work for the defence of raw milk, the ban on GMOs, the promotion of animal husbandry that contributes to animal wellbeing and meat quality, sustainable fishing, and the safeguarding of traditional artisan hand working and aging techniques.
Two Irish Presidia have been set up to include Irish raw cow`s milk cheeses including Durrus, Desmond raw and Bellingham Blue. There is also a presidia of Irish smoked wild salmon including Sally Barnes at Woodcock Smokery and Frank Hederman at Belvelly smokehouse. For more information see www.slowfood.com
Slow food is a movement for the good of us all,
It’s mission is to protect bio-diversity in our food supply.
Slow Food cork
Slow Food believes in each of us having the right to:
Good Food The food we eat should taste good.
Clean Food that food should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health.
Fair Food the farmers, farm workers and food producers should receive a decent income for their work.
Next Cork event Saturday March 13th
