Manifesto on the Future of Food

Slow Food is a growing cultural movement that we support. The ideas are progressive, yet celebrate the best of traditional food production. But what does the future of food look like? Do you imagine fresh, healthy delights, or a factory food nightmare?

Slow Food have a vision for the direction in which we should all be heading. It's called the Manifesto of the Future of Food. You can read it here at the Slow Food website.

What's it all about? This is how Slow Food introduces the document:

This manifesto is the outcome of a joint effort among participants in the meetings of the International Commission on the Future of Food during late 2002 and early 2003 in Tuscany, Italy. The Government of the Region of Tuscany actively participated in and supported the Commission’s work.

The Manifesto is intended as a synthesis of the work and the ideas espoused by hundreds of organisations around the world, and thousands of individuals, actively seeking to reverse the present dire trend toward the industrialisation and globalisation of food production.

While the manifesto includes a critique of the dangerous directions of the moment, most importantly it sets out practical vision, ideas and programs toward ensuring that food and agriculture become more socially and ecologically sustainable, more accessible, and toward putting food quality, food safety and public health above corporate profits.

We hope this manifesto will serve as a catalyst to unify and strengthen the movement toward sustainable agriculture, food sovereignty, biodiversity and agricultural diversity, and that it will help thereby to alleviate hunger and poverty globally. We urge people and communities to translate it and use it, as appropriate to their needs, and to disseminate the principles and ideas it contains, in as many ways as possible.