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Think Slow Food is Just a Coastal Thing?
Posted on Fri, September 28, 2007 by Website Administrator
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Tell that to Arkansas:
The Slow Food perspective is that a lifestyle shift is needed — one that involves stopping to smell the basil. Instead of grabbing a burger at a drive-through, and eating on-the-go, we will have more fun and advance sustainability at the same time if we get to know our farmers and buy local food, support local food traditions and heritage agricultural varieties and breeds, and re-establish meals as social events. Ozark Slow Food wants to both celebrate and promote local food and good eating.
The Fayetteville Free Weekly goes on to say…
The Slow Food movement reached Northwest Arkansas before the name did. Although some people still believe that fruit and vegetable production departed this region many years ago, today a dozen farmers' markets are operating in NWA. And the number of markets, growers, and shoppers continues to rise. Increased access to fresh fruits and vegetables comes at the right time. Concerns about obesity among all age groups in Arkansas is encouraging more people to eat more fruits and vegetables, and none are better than those eaten fresh from local farms.
And local chefs and food lovers are in on it too:
One of those chefs is Vince Pianalto. "I have always been a fan of the Slow Food movement as long as I have been in the foodservice business," Pianalto said. "I was bolstered by the attendance at the first Slow Food event at my bakery in June, but never imagined the response. I expected around 50 people when over 130 arrived. Wow! Northwest Arkansas is obviously ready for a chapter of Slow Food."
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From Kell Brigan on Sat, July 18, 2009
In other words, there are people in Arkansas who hate fat people, and want to have a thin-people-only-club where they get together and pretend fat people eat differently or more than thinner people (even though no one anywhere has ever proven that fat people are gluttons, or eat differently than anyone else.) Who cares about truth when five thin people in Arkansas need to get their insatiable hate and egotism fed?
Slow Food is first and foremost about allowing childish people to indulge their egotism and hatred, and to cover it all up as badly disguised ?advice? aimed at fat people and non-whites. Fatness is primarily a genetic characteristic, and fat people will always exist. We?re not ?failures? or ?abnormalities? created by Evil Corporate Food, and non-whites are not all children who need the Good White Rich People to come save them. There?s some legitimate economic and gastronomic promise in the Slow Food mind set, but the hate, bigotry, fatbashing, egotism, elitism, condescension, unsoliticited ?advice?, and other hysterical junk science b.s. has GOT to go!
Your biggest opponent is your own hatred. You want Slow Food to go mainstream? STOP HATING FAT PEOPLE, STOP ASSUMING NON-WHITES ARE STUPID CHILDREN, AND KEEP YOUR $#@&%^ ?ADVICE? TO YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!
