Slow Food

"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."

http://www.slowfood.com/

"DIVERSITY IS THE ground for the turn-around of our food systems - diversity of crops, of foods, of cultures. Diversity is both the resistance to monocultures and the creative alternative. Building on our uniqueness and variety is our strength, a strength that can be eroded only when we give up on it ourselves." Vandana Shiva, CELEBRATING FOOD ECONOMIES (The Slow Food movement organised a magical gathering of food communities - Terra Madre - which took place in Turin, Italy.) (Resurgence Issue 229) http://www.resurgence.org/2005/shiva229.htm