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Slow Food is an international movement founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986. 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 was the first established part of the broader Slow Movement. The movement has since expanded globally to over 100,000 members in 150 countries.〔Slow Food International – Good, Clean and Fair Food. Web. 16 Nov. 2011. http://www.slowfood.com.〕 Its goals of sustainable foods and promotion of local small businesses are paralleled by a political agenda directed against globalization of agricultural products. ==Organization== Slow Food began in Italy with the founding of its forerunner organisation, Arcigola, in 1986〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Slow Food History: 1986 )〕 to resist the opening of a McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome.〔Carlo Petrini, William McCuaig (trans.), Alice Waters (foreword). (2003) (''Slow Food: The Case for Taste'' ). New York: Columbia University Press. p. ix. 〕 In 1989, the founding manifesto of the international Slow Food movement was signed in Paris, France by delegates from 15 countries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Slow Food History: 1989 )〕 At its heart is the aim to promote local foods and traditional gastronomy and food production. Conversely this means an opposition to fast food, industrial food production and globalisation. The Slow Food organisation has expanded to include over 100,000 members with branches in over 150 countries.〔 Over 1,300 local ''convivia'' chapters exist. 360 convivia in Italy — to which the name ''condotta'' (singular) / ''condotte'' (plural) applies — are composed of 35,000 members, along with 450 other regional chapters around the world. The organisational structure is decentralised: each convivium has a leader who is responsible for promoting local artisans, local farmers, and local flavors through regional events such as ''Taste Workshops'', wine tastings, and farmers' markets. Offices have been opened in Switzerland (1995), Germany (1998), New York City (2000), France (2003), Japan (2005), the United Kingdom and Chile. Global headquarters are located in Bra, near Turin, Italy. Numerous publications are put out by the organisation, in several languages around the world. Recent efforts at publicity include the world's largest food and wine fair, the (Salone del Gusto ) in Turin, a biennial cheese fair in Bra called ''Cheese'', the Genoan fish festival called (SlowFish ), and Turin's Terra Madre ("Mother Earth") world meeting of food communities. In 2004, Slow Food opened a University of Gastronomic Sciences at Pollenzo, in Piedmont, and Colorno, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Carlo Petrini and Massimo Montanari are the leading figures in the creation of the University, whose goal is to promote awareness of good food and nutrition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Slow Food」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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