The Slow Food MovementIn 1987 Carlo Petrini founded a coalition dedicated to politics and the pleasures of slowness and opposition to fast food. (Leitch 439) He describes one of his goals by saying: I am for a virtuous globalization, where there is fair and true trade to help small farmers. It is important to have a trade that is organic, healthy and against genetically modified organisms and processes that poison the earth with chemicals. For example there is coffee in Chiappas, amaranth in Argentina. Slow Food is able to provide them with more money and better deals than big businesses could. (Leitch 430) The efforts of the Slow Food Movement are essential to the survival of an aesthetic world of authentic food and respect for the people who produce, grow and prepare it. Slow Food is a deliberate name meant to be defined as the opposite of fast, inauthentic meals. (Pietrykowski 310) In developing his organization, Petrini thought that the snail would be the most appropriate symbol for his cause due to the slowness of the animal. (Leitch 439) I believe that to preserve the authenticity of regional cuisine the people who prepare the foods must have a knowledge of their culture, an understanding of the ingredients they are using, and that the ingredients they select must come from their region and nothing else. In their esses... middle of paper... whether it should be used or not. The Slow Movement maintains respect from organizations around the world for sticking to what they believe and leaving opposing societies and businesses alone. Slow Food and Carlo Petrini have a lot to be proud of and just reading about their coalition and beliefs inspired me to incorporate their goals into my life. Works Cited Kummer, Corby. The pleasures of eating. : Chronic Books, 2002.Leitch, Alison. "Slow Food and the Politics of Pork Fat: Italian Food and European Identity". Ethnos 68.4 (2003): 437-462. Miele, Mara and Jonathan Murdoch. "The Practical Aesthetics of Traditional Cuisines: Slow Food in Tuscany." Sociologia Ruralis October 2002: 312-325. Pietrykowski, Bruce. “You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement.” Social Economy Review September 2004: 307-317.