Slow Food Movement: History, Objectives, and Key Activities

Slow Food Movement

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ESSAY.......................................................................................................................................3
Using examples, critically discuss what the Slow Food Movement is in relation to food
consumption in the 21st century, its history, and its objectives, key areas of focus,
underlying principles and key activities.................................................................................3
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8
Books and journals.................................................................................................................8

ESSAY
Using examples, critically discuss what the Slow Food Movement is in relation to food
consumption in the 21st century, its history, and its objectives, key areas of focus, underlying
principles and key activities.
In the current era, there is continuously increase within the population, industrial
development, urbanisation and globalisation. This all are continuously impacting on the food
production and pattern (Boyd, 2016). The system is also impact on a diet of human beings as
well as the ecosystem in which they survive. Due to this unstable pattern of the conduction
and continuous changes within the pattern of conception there are several problems which are
faced by the humanity. These problems are economic environment and social crisis. This also
develops a habit with humans to consume resources more than the requirement which is
impacting on resources degradation.
The concept of food security can be defined as a function which is introduced to
manage the food security where each and every individual has an access to the safe sufficient
and nutritious meal in order to fulfil their calorie consumption for healthy and active life.
This is affected mostly fast food, under this system because of unstable pattern there is
continuously increasing the consumption of fast food which also stressed over the supply of
resources and ecosystem. This also impacted on environment negatively because there are
different kinds of fast food which are consumed by individuals. Some of the major
consequences and this are decree decline in fertility of soil, marine environment degradation
due to increase in fishing. Degradation of forest land because of requirement of coal for
cooking food is also a factor. This is directly impacting on accessibility of food and security
specially and the developed and developing countries (Brits, 2016).
In context of improving current food pattern, there is a moment which is named as
slow food movement. This moment covers all the factors related to minimising the impact of
fast food and improper consumption patterns. Under this system, there is to focus on
increasing the people to stop eating fast food instead of eating fast food this help in taking
time to prepare and eat the holy from the local source food. This seems that the local food is
nutritious as well as also contains and preserves the culture and heritage of local society. It
acts as a simplest form of alternative in relation to the current fast life and fast food. It
includes all those functions which are related to the current and regional flavours cultures and
traditional practices (Çiçek, Ulu and Uslay, 2019). This moment was begin in 1986 in order
to face all those problems which are directly and indirectly related to the improper ways of
consumption and production of food items. This also aims to save different cultures and their
food because traditional culture is always related to food products. This helps in in managing
the product system in raising the awareness about the local food product so that individual
can also include them in their eating patterns and can identify the social aspect in relation to
taste. The slow food movement is achieving different kind of milestones where it begins to
appear from 1990s. The first big moment was started in 1989 from Paris. In current time, SF
is short name of slow food movement. In relation to this moment it is showing its present