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Are Organic and Biodynamic Wines Worth It?

Posted by Slow Food NYC September 29, 2012
For starters, natural wines are made without pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers, added sugars, artificial acids or commercial yeasts. Many natural wines are also bottled without shelf-life-prolonging sulfites and with very little or no oak at all. These are “hands-off” wines, wines that reveal their soul as directly as possible without being covered up by other stuff.
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Fair Food Program helps end the use of slavery in the tomato fields

Posted by Slow Food NYC September 22, 2012
Over the past seven years, the food service industry and fast food restaurants have come on board, promising to purchase tomatoes only from growers who agree to comply with the code of conduct. What’s more, the buyers pledged to pay a penny-a-pound premium for every box of tomatoes they purchased from participating growers, who pass on the increase to their workers.
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The Food Industry's Big Problem with Genetically Engineered Food

Posted by Slow Food NYC September 15, 2012
The No on Proposition 37 campaign emailed Thursday to tout a new study by UC Davis professors. It concludes that the proposition on the November ballot to require the labeling of genetically engineered foods would cost the food industry more than a billion dollars and lead to higher food costs from consumers.
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Changing the Guard: Returning to the Age of the Farmers’ Market

Posted by Slow Food NYC September 8, 2012
Farmers’ Markets are on the rise in America. After decades of processed prepackaged foods, proliferation of fast food, and mass agriculture, there is finally again beginning to be a true market for the small farmer and healthy consumer. But how did we get away from these traditional farmers’ markets of the past in the first place?
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Slow Food – Promoting Good, Clean, and Fair Food All Around the Globe

Posted by Slow Food NYC September 1, 2012
The grassroots Slow Food movement has been gathering converts around the world ever since its founder, Carlo Petrini, organized a demonstration against the fast food giant MacDonald’s in Rome, more than twenty-five years ago.
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