The Malaysian Insider :: Food
The Malaysian Insider :: Food |
| Italy’s Slow Food movement prepares giant food fair Posted: 30 Sep 2012 06:55 AM PDT ROME, Sept 30 — Italy's Slow Food movement announced plans this week to host the world's biggest gourmet food fair next month in Turin, with a focus on "the foods that change the world".
The fair will run at the same time as a meeting of Terra Madre, a network of food communities across five continents including in the developing world. "New policies on food can change the world," Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini told reporters in Rome, adding that the fair would also host around 40 conferences to discuss food rights, land grabbing and EU farm policy. "Food has become just a good, particularly in Europe where farms are shutting down and farmers cannot survive on what they earn," Petrini said. He called for a reduction in food waste, more education about food for children from a young age, and a strengthening of local communities. Petrini said Europe should fund "a return to the land" by young people. Petrini, a sociologist and former food critic, said he was pleased the head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Jose Graziano da Silva, would attend the fair, which is held every two years. Slow Food was founded in 1986 in reaction to the rise of fast food, and now counts around 100,000 members in 130 countries. — AFP/Relaxnews |
The Salone del Gusto fair will run from October 25-29 and bring together 1,000 exhibitors from 100 countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, as well as 350 producers of traditional foods Slow Food is working to preserve.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Food To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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