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Key facts
- Formation
- 1986 ; 40 years ago ( 1986 )
- Headquarters
- Bra , Italy
- Members
- 68,780 (2021)
- President
- Carlo Petrini
- Website
- fondazioneslowfood .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- nonprofit organization
- Country
- Italy
- Headquarters
- Bra
- Revenue
- 4981875
- Legal form
- nonprofit organization
- Official website
- www.slowfood.com
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- Commons category
- Slow Food
- topic's main category
- Category:Slow Food
- inception
- 1986-00-00
- social media followers
- 13300
- donations
- 707878
- opposite of
- fast food
- significant person
- Alice Waters
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Encyclopedic overview
Slow Food is an organization that promotes local food and traditional cooking. It was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986 and has since spread worldwide. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds, and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. It promotes local small businesses and sustainable foods. It also focuses on food quality, rather than quantity. It was the first established part of the broader slow movement. It speaks out against overproduction and food waste. It sees globalization as a process in which small and local farmers and food producers should be simultaneously protected from and included in the global food system.
Organization
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Slow Food” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.