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Slow Food is a movement dedicated to preserving and supporting traditional ways of growing, producing and preparing food. The movement was founded in 1986 and in its first years it was heavily concentrated on food and wine, also producing what is considered to be Italy's best guides to wine, restaurants and food stores. But in the mid-1990s Slow Food developed a new political dimension concerning food. "We want to extend the kind of attention that environmentalism has dedicated to the panda and the tiger to domesticated plants and animals," says Carlo Petrini, the movement's founder. "A hundred years ago people ate between one hundred and a hundred-and-twenty different species of food. Now our diet is made up of at most ten or twelve."
Worrying about the fate of the Paduan hen might have seemed an unusal concern a few years ago, but with the lingering panic over made cow disease, the outbreak of food and mouth disease, and the debate over generally modified food, Slow Food -- with its emphasis on natural, organic methods -- has acquired a political importance and popularity that has surprised even its own leaders. Since 1995, when it began to defend endangered foods, the organization has grown rapidly. To press its political concern, Slow Food has opened offices in Brussels and in New York, where it organizes trade fairs and tries to find markets for traditional food producers.
As national boundaries gradually disappear in Europe, food has emerged as an important source of identity, giving a new twist to the phrase, "We are what we eat." But Slow Food does not merely look backwards with nostalgia at a world of vanishing pleasures. In Slow Food's view, globalization has the potential to help as well as harm the small food producer. On the one hand, globalization allows multinational corporations to extend their reach to virtually every corner of the world. But at the same time, by making communications easier it creates openings for local cultures to survive. The international network that Slow Food is building is an example of true globalization.
――広島大学 前期日程（２月25日実施）――2005年
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