We’ve been talking about meat a lot lately–mobile slaughter units, meat recalls, laptop butchershops–and we’re not the only ones.
Issue #3 of Meatpaper jut hit the stands and it’s the best one yet. They cover everything from the controversial presence of retail pork in Israel, to the hunt for roadside goat testicles in Tunisia.  And over […]

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Although Congress passed an extension on 2002’s Farm Bill until April 18, requiems are already being said for the hopes and dreams everyone had for radical change.
“A little more than a year ago,” The Wall Street Journal said yesterday in this excellent article, “the stars appeared to be aligned for significant changes to the […]

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The March, 2008 issue of Metropolis focuses on the overarching idea of localism and its relationship to sustainability.  It is, as always, a beautiful and well-written issue, but in it one particular columnist, Bruce Sterling, has taken Slow Food to task accusing us once again of that old canard, elitism.
Now while it is true that […]

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Last week we began exploring the question of mobile slaughter units, and their ability to provide infrastructure to small and mid-sized meat producers. Examining the history of the first ever facility in the country, we hope to answer the question: is this replicable?
What does it take to be the first at something like this? To […]

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Slow Food USA Board member, Jim Braun, was one of the subjects of a documentary a few years back on the disappearance of the family farm. It’s a short, simple, and very effective film in three parts that discusses how small farmers in Iowa were squeezed out, with a focus on the small hog […]

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In case you missed this, Atlanta’s “Sunday Paper” had this to say about its convivium, and founding leader (and Southern Regional Governor) Julie Schaffer:

Preserving traditions

Photo Credit: Spark St. Jude
Julie Shaffer, founder of the Atlanta chapter of Slow Food
By Hope S. Philbrick
If you ate milk and cookies every day after school and now serve the same […]

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A few articles in the month of January on mobile slaughter units around the country caught our attention and got us asking questions. Why is there a need for mobile slaughter facilities? Could the answer lie somewhere in the nation’s largest beef recall? Where are their successful mobile slaughter facilities in this country? What did […]

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Check out GOOD magazine for which big conglomerates own which organic food labels.

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by Slow Food in Schools Coordinator, Cecily Upton
Here at Slow Food USA, we’ve been noticing an interesting and exciting trend: young folks eschewing the corporate/industrial complex and going back to the land and back to the kitchen.
We’re not the only ones who noticed it either–Saturday’s New York Times Style Section included a lengthy article about […]

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by Membership Assistant, Julia De Martini Day 
“Sin maíz, no hay país!” “Without corn, there is no country!” were the words chanted by the Independent Women’s Movement on International Women’s Day March 8th in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico as they protested against free trade agreements devastating local agricultural communities and affordable access […]

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