Spazzm,

Don't just react, read. Know of whence you speak.

For the one millionth time, Slow Food is NOT (is everyone listening this time?) NOT anti-globalization. It is not anti-anything. Slow Food is for things, including what we refer to as a "virtuous globalization." Now before you anti-PC, anti-new-expression-for-any-idea people start calling the term precious or something, take a moment to think about what it means.

It means a form of globalization that takes people, their livelihoods and their cultures into account. it takes the environment into account. This rather than saying, in the immortal (and immoral) words of Earl Butz, "Get Big or Get Out." It's not about getting rich, it's about helping EVERYONE, rich, poor and in between, live well.

NichePlayer,

Thanks, I was about to post that myself (since it's my post), but you beat me to it.

Point is Slow Food has received a bum rap for what it does, and the part about it that really is the org's fault is that we haven't properly fought back against that perception of elitism, instead we've let others frame the debate.

I for one am done with that. From now on we fight.