Linda Black of Washington Post writes about US food policy or lack thereof and how we can gather together to affect change.

This terrific short was brought to our attention by Debbie Davis of DWD Longhorns. She writes:
Here’s a “great 15 minute video on the state of our food supply from the perspective of some of today’’s greatest minds in sustainable agriculture.”
We Are What We Eat

I was reflecting on our time at Slow Food Nation and thought we should circle back to the Food Declaration presented there, which encompasses so much of what we believe in as an organization, particularly as related to “preventing the cruel treatment of animals” and enforcing “transparency so that citizens know how their food is [...]

California is truly amazing. What vibrant, mobilized, conscientious group of people we have met and befriended this weekend. It’s easy to see why Slow Food Nation picked San Francisco to launch this gathering–the people could not be more ready for it. Today, Farmer and Market Outreach Coordinator Emily Lancaster gave a talk at the Soap [...]

We hope to see you in San Francisco this weekend for the nation’s first major Slow Food Gathering. Please find listed below the events our staff will be participating in. We would love to meet you, so please join us. We would also appreciate if you would forward this to people you [...]

As part of our partnership with Slow Food Nation, we were invited to write a guest post for the Slow Food Nation Blog. Take a look at Program Director Andrew Gunther’s recent post on Slow Food Nation’s weblog.

We are excited to partner with Slow Food Nation in the first-ever American gathering this Labor Day weekend in San Francisco. Slow Food is a vibrant movement of people who advocate food systems that are good, clean and fair-goals we also support in our promotion of high-welfare husbandry. We will be involved in [...]