The Slow Movement. The focus is not only on nutrition but also on preserving culture and heritage as it relates to food. Slow Food is a global grassroots organization founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions counteract the rise of fast life and combat peoples dwindling interest in the food they eat where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.
Hopefully the movement will continue and another grassroots slow city movement will operate in parallel whereby cities that cannot meet the strict criteria for one reason or another can still call themselves slow cities and continue to work towards sustainable living and the ethos of the slow. The Bay Area has become a fountainhead for the food movement birthing concepts like California Cuisine locavore and the slow food movement while incorporating its other role as a technology hotbed to birth scores of startup innovations. The Slow Movement started from Slow Food but has developed and matured and presently can be found in other fields.
What is the Slow Art Movement.
Leading by example we demand change from the fashion industry and policy makers. 50 years 25 Cops. Maybe some great audio an inspirational character record label or event that we feel the need to shout about a little bit. The slow food movement is a global initiative focused on encouraging people to stop eating fast food instead taking the time to prepare and eat whole locally-sourced foods.