'Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement believes, "…everyone has the right to good, clean and fair food".
Its mission of educating and providing foundation for universal access to good, clean and fair food has been the movement’s banner since its original incarnation in the late 1980s as a committee (under a different name) protesting the opening of McDonald’s near the Spanish Steps.
Since then, the organization has grown into a 100,000 member movement with chapters (convivia) in over 150 countries.'
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'The obsession with being thin is a modern sickness.
Do you really think it’s a coincidence that we have an ever-growing number of women who have lost their sex drive, don’t menstruate, can’t get pregnant, and/or can’t nurse their babies?
What is up with that?
Could it be the fact that we are starving ourselves? Living on salads and Diet Coke. Cutting out the bread and the butter, skipping breakfast, forgoing dessert, doing whatever we can to try to get back to that size 6.
I want to bring back the hourglass.
After all, some of the sexiest women alive have been curvy.
Like Marilyn.'Read more...
