Slow Food began as a grassroots, not-for-profit organisation in Italy in the late 1980s in reaction to the arrival of American fast-food chains in Rome.

The movement was initiated by activists who sought to protect regional food traditions and the relationship between producers and consumers.

Carlo Petrini is named in the documents as a primary figure in the founding protests and statements that launched the movement.

Slow Food grew into an international organisation with around 100,000 members in over 150 countries.

The movement critiques the industrial food system for prioritising scale and efficiency while reducing transparency, harming local food traditions, and creating environmental impacts.

Core tenets of Slow Food include conscious consumerism, respect for seasonality and locality, celebrating traditional culinary practices, and supporting resilient local food systems.

The movement encourages practical actions such as engaging directly with producers, shopping at farmers' markets, foraging, growing your own produce, and choosing venues aligned with slow-food values.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the fragility of long industrial supply chains and helped raise interest in more resilient and local food approaches.

Contemporary proponents and initiatives mentioned include the global Slow Food organisation and local networks such as Taste Causeway and Slow Food Northern Ireland which promote accreditation, events, and local producers.

Documents link the slow-food ethos with efforts to revive and preserve traditional regional cuisines through chefs, festivals, cooking classes and cultural promotion.

To sample authentic slow-food cuisine, the sources recommend visiting Slow Food-accredited destinations, local farmers' markets, regional food festivals, and producers who prioritise local ingredients and traditional preparations.

The original Slow Food roots are Italian and the movement remains tied to protecting regional Italian food traditions while inspiring similar efforts worldwide.

The broader slow philosophy has been extended beyond food into areas like slow travel, slow design and slow living, and theorists such as Carl Honoré helped spread the idea into those domains.

When planning travel to experience slow food, the documents advise prioritising local markets, smaller producers, and events that foreground seasonality and place over touristified, chain offerings.

In short, Slow Food started in Italy as a reaction to fast food, grew into a global movement that values seasonality, locality and traditional cooking, and the best way to sample authentic slow-food experiences is to visit accredited destinations, farmers' markets, regional festivals and producers who foreground local ingredients.

Slow Food began as a grassroots, not-for-profit organisation in Italy in the late 1980s in reaction to the arrival of American fast-food chains in Rome.

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Content: Breaking The Industrial Cycle With Slow Food

Where do you go to get your groceries? If your first thought was your local supermarket, you are not alone. Shopping in large grocery stores became the norm for many of us, and we rely on these outlets more than we realise. They are convenient, filled to the brim with seemingly every product you could imagine and have a price point that fits most pockets.

From afar it seems like the perfect solution, but we all witnessed what happened in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic turned life on its head and among many others, highlighted the fragility of our food economy and the part supermarkets play in it.

The University of Oxford describes our food system as “a complex set of interconnected practices and relationships that ultimately deliver food from farms, processing facilities, factories, warehouses, and retailers, to the dinner table.”

Slow Food

The industrial food system is built for scale and efficiency with an aim to maximise production, reduce cost, and function much like factories.

Although many supermarkets and producers are taking steps to include the origins of their products on their labels, there is still not enough transparency around where our food actually comes from. This industrialised structure offers customers accessibility to a wider range of products at more affordable prices but has economic and environmental impacts that many are not aware of.

Industrial agriculture is notorious for using a range of fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides in their processes to maximise output, some of which stays present in the soil long after the crops are harvested. The products are then processed in factories, stabilised with preservatives and packaged in plastic, all occurring before they are loaded onto long haul freights, planes, lorries to arrive in distribution centres and eventually to supermarket shelves.

BBC Good Food reported that “DEFRA estimates that moving food is responsible for 25 per cent of all miles covered by heavy goods traffic in the UK. Transporting food within, to and around the UK produces 19 million tonnes of CO2 annually – equivalent to around 5.5 million typical cars.”

The length of the supply chains involved in industrial food systems result in a fragile structure as any slight disruption throughout the intricate process can halt the supply chain at any time.

However, this industrial food system is not the only one available to our economy. While our modern supermarkets heavily rely on large-scale agriculture, large scale production and precise, uninterrupted international food trade and fast turnaround times, the alternative slow food system focuses on a more resilient structure.

As the resilient alternative to this industrial cycle that many in the industry are championing, Slow Food is focused on returning to the traditional methods and celebrating all things local.

The not for profit grassroots organisation, Slow Food was set up in Italy in the late 1980s in a bid to promote traditional food preparation methods and locally sourced ingredients, going against the arrival of the American fast-food chain McDonald’s in Rome. The eco-gastronomic organisation now has around 100,000 members in over 150 countries.

Recognising and raising awareness of the negative impact the industrial food system had on society, the economy and the environment, the organisation ignited a Slow Food movement: a new way of conscious consumerism that takes seasonality, locality and tradition into account.

A slow, or resilient food system can take on many forms, starting with us as individuals making a conscious effort to engage with producers, venues and outlets that are aligned with the slow food values, to foraging, growing our own produce and going to local farmers’ markets.

Any involvement in the movement can make a significant difference in local communities and build a more sustainable, resilient and eco-friendly food system.

As the first accredited Slow Food destination in Northern Ireland, the Causeway Coast and Glens have been spearheading the move toward this resilient system and together with Taste Causeway, the collaborative network of local food and drink businesses.

From exciting slow food events to highlighting producers and awarding them with Slow Food accreditation, Taste Causeway and Slow Food NI are putting local suppliers and venues at the forefront of consumers’ minds, one business at a time.

To find out more about how you can support the Slow Food movement, the businesses involved and the upcoming events on the Causeway Coast, go to https://slowfood.tastecauseway.com/

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Content: Slow travel.
How do you enjoy your vacation in 2023 in a completely different way?
Tourism and travel have recently become another way to keep up with popular trends or “trends ”, and to capture impressive images that bring in more followers.
While planning vacations, some no longer think only of the places they themselves wish to visit, as much as they observe the experiences of others on social media and think of all those wonderful places they go.
In the meantime, we seem to be surrounded by a flood of travel and tourism social media accounts, which post only minute-long "flutes" where influencers navigate between various fascinating tourist destinations.
Photos and leaflets tell you that you can travel to 10 places in seven days, and that there are 100 destinations you shouldn ’ t miss.
All of this makes us feel like we are in a race to go to as many destinations as possible in as little time as possible, and creates hunger for more experiences, drives us to jump like rabbits from one destination to another and from one experience to another, so we plan vacations filled with experiences, destinations and landmarks instead of focusing our time and budgets on what really interests us.
So, perhaps it ’ s time to rethink the way we travel from a different perspective that gives us more opportunity to relax and delve deeper into the travel experience, through “slow travel. ”
From food to travel.
In praise of slow and slow
In the 1980s, in 1986, McDonald ’ s opened a new branch in Piazza di Spagna, one of Rome ’ s most famous tourist attractions.
Italian sociologist and activist Carlo Petrini published a statement announcing the launch of the Slow Food movement as a reaction to fast food that has become permeating food cultures from one country to another, leaving its negative impact on food cultures and local cooking and turning it into a similar and unified “monster. ”
The statement sparked interest around the world, and quickly led to the emergence of a global movement and organization supported by more than 100,000 members, a movement that over time evolved into sub-ideas in other domains such as slow living, slow design, and slow travel.
Hence the term Slow Tourism, an approach to travel that offers different possibilities and ways to support sustainable tourism and low-carbon tourism, based on reducing mobility by plane and car, and relying more on bicycles or walking.
It also relies on communicating with local people and cultures and eating local folk food, with an interest in preserving the environment (2).
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, global tourism had reached a record high of 671 million international tourists.
Despite the positive effects of the boom in tourism, it has a negative aspect that cannot be ignored.
In a study published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, researchers focused on the potential of slow travel in the face of climate change challenges, with travel at the time of publication accounting for 50-97.5% of the amount of heat emission of most tourist trips.
The emerging concept of slow travel at the time was a reaction to high-carbon travel practices, so that slow travel becomes an integral part of the tourism experience and not just a difference in mode of transportation.
The negative impact of the tourism boom was not only on the increasing carbon footprint, but also on other environmental impacts of no less importance, for example, the Philippine government was forced to temporarily close the Boracay tourist area in 2018 to tourists, after it was transformed from a picturesque island to a sewage and waste sink for tourists, which affected the aquatic life there.
All these and other effects have led to the embrace of a new way of tourism, while embracing greater responsibility towards the environment and local communities, and opening up another horizon for individual enjoyment and exploration of the self and the world.
Here are a selection of slow travel mechanisms that will help you enjoy this exciting experience.
Take the least traveled routes.
Off The Beaten Path (or The Road Less Traveled) is one of the terms associated with slow travel, and is adapted from verses by the American poet Robert Frost, which means choosing unusual areas and different routes than the familiar, crowded routes, and is highly associated with the search for hidden local gems and avoiding the pattern of consumer tourism.
We advise you to stay away from peak tourist seasons, so you will be able to avoid the crowds, as well as get cheaper accommodation and transfers.
You will also be able to explore your destination slowly and quietly away from the crowds and crowds of tourists.
Nobody sees everything.
Many tourists fall into the sin of trying to see and discover everything, and you find lists such as “places not to miss if you go to such a country ” containing dozens of places that it is impossible for an ordinary person to visit all of them on a short vacation.
Take the Louvre as an example, one of the most famous and important museums in the world, with an area of   about 13 square kilometers, and its complex map makes you wonder will you be able to visit all these halls?
And see over a million pieces of art and history in one day?
Or even a few days?
Here you will have to choose between jumping from hall to hall and planning your visit so that you can see as many pieces as possible and take dozens of photos, or choose the pieces that really interest you, and look at each piece, and reflect on its meanings.
You can gasp from hall to hall, or you can settle for a few paintings, and if you go in the opposite direction, you can visit the same painting for several days and spend hours in front of it.
And what about the pictures?
The images are already on search sites, and believe me if you ’ re not an exceptional professional artist, the image you take in the Louvre has been taken by thousands of people before you.
Choose what matters to you, and build your own list based on your priorities.
If you don ’ t enjoy art, and you love outdoor adventure, why spend hours in a museum and see paintings you won ’ t be able to communicate with instead of climbing a mountain, for example.
The opposite is also true.
Think about what really interests your heart, are you a lover of architecture, nature or art and history?
And what are your priorities?
Let coincidence lead you.
Despite the importance of planning, planning every minute of your trip deprives you of a lot of coincidences that may give you irreplaceable opportunities.
Leave room for a bit of randomness, an empty space for chance, free tours in which your feet and intuition lead you towards the unknown and the adventure it carries.
You might want to skip the usual tourist attractions to enjoy other things, such as living like the locals and exploring the side streets away from the city center.
Knowing people is a treasure.
Speaking of side streets instead of renting a car, walking and using public transport will enable you to get to know the country better, as well as the chance to get to know the local population.
It is said that "the people of Mecca know its people", and so in every city, away from the popular tourist destinations, the people of the city know the best and cheapest places, restaurants and shops, and from them you can explore the city in the best possible ways.
Not only that, in movies we often see heroes change their lives after having an inspiring conversation with a passing person on the way.
Perhaps we wonder why we do not meet such inspirations, and why our lives do not change.
You may not be able to take inspiration if the ones you ’ re talking to are the hurried tourists or the tour guide.
But what about people from different cultures?
Shopkeepers and old people who sit in cafes, those who belong to a land other than your land and a time other than your time, is it not possible that if you open your heart and speak without concern, you can draw inspiration from them?
There is a hidden pleasure in talking to strangers you may never meet again.
The conversation may not turn your life upside down like in the movies, but if you allow your soul to open up enough, it could be an opportunity to explore a new aspect of yourself or the world.
Find out about local markets and food.
Instead of buying souvenirs from tourist bazaars or airports, you can try buying from local markets, where you will find unique handmade goods.
You can learn about the many handicrafts of each city, from which you explore its history, and support it in the face of counterfeit products that do not carry a soul.
Be sure to try local food as it is one of the most important experiences not to be missed when traveling.
Look for local dishes and try what works for you, visit local markets, and taste vegetables and fruits that may be unfamiliar in your country.
If you ’ re a foodie, you might want to take lessons in cooking local dishes, learn how to prepare them and understand more about the culture and history of the place.
Instead of searching for branches of international chains of cafes and restaurants drink your coffee in a small local cafe, meet the waiters and pioneers and pick up the tales scattered from their mouths, this is your real wealth from the journey, not the bright photographic image that resembles the hundreds of photos taken by tourists before you.
Get rid of travel stress
When you rush from one place to another with a full list of activities you do every minute, you usually come back from vacation with a deep sense of stress, which is called travel fatigue.
In the slow travel experience you will enjoy relaxing, walking through forests and gardens, or lying in the desert in a star-studded sky.
Ignore your phone and your desire to take pictures.
Relax a bit and enjoy your experience. (6)
You don ’ t need any more time or money.
Some may say I can ’ t travel slowly, my vacation is only 7 days.
Slow travel doesn ’ t mean long travel, it doesn ’ t have to do with time frame as much as the way you travel and your way of thinking.
So slow travel brings us back to the real and root causes of travel, why do we move from one place to another?
And what are we looking for?
Are we looking for more photos of our social media accounts, are we looking for relaxation, are we looking for more cultures and history, or do we want to dig deeper and connect with ourselves?
In terms of budget, I ’ m happy.
There are many ways to reduce your travel budget, it is possible to try work while traveling, you can work in one of the farms or small hotels in exchange for accommodation, which many places offer, especially if you decide to settle in one place for long enough.
Also, instead of looking for luxury hotels, you can opt for shared homes, live with a local resident, or look for shared accommodations and cheap local hotels.
And within your city, too.
If you don ’ t have a chance to vacation outside your city, you can apply these ideas in your city as well, instead of meeting your friends in repeated places behind glass walls, go on a tour to explore the city, the unknown areas of it, the unfamiliar streets.
Turn to the old cafes, to the trees you pass every day on your way to work without seeing or noticing its presence, to people and stones.
Remember that slow travel is not just a way to travel, but a different view of the world and a way to live and think.
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Sources:
Carlo Petrini and the History of Slow Food
2. Slow Travel and Tourism
Slow travel: issues for tourism and climate
Philippines to shutdown tourist island boracay for six months
The Tourist ’ s Perception about Slow Travel – A Romanian Perspective
In light of the Krona pandemic, slow travel is the latest tourism trends
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What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

When did Carlo Petrini launch the Slow Food Movement?

What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

When did Carlo Petrini launch the Slow Food Movement?

The movement was initiated by activists who sought to protect regional food traditions and the relationship between producers and consumers.

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

On returning to traditional food methods

What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

A long-standing campaign of Slow Food International

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

On returning to traditional food methods

What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

A long-standing campaign of Slow Food International

Carlo Petrini is named in the documents as a primary figure in the founding protests and statements that launched the movement.

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Content: Praise the slow pace of life.
Explore the fun of the world calmly
The idea of slow living negates the belief that a successful person should be busy or fast, and encourages the person to be present consciously at every moment.
Once the society is saturated with the new, it returns to the past, and this is what happens in art, decoration, fashion, and social trends.
From here, too, the slow pace of life can be seen as a return to the old calm in some way, after the rhythm of life has become too fast to keep up with.
The idea of a slow life can be a convenient orientation for those who are looking for a calm state of mind, trying to take a long-term view of life and the world away from constant stress, anxiety and gasping.
Slow living helps us live more consciously and clearly with what we value and need in life, where we do everything at the right speed, rather than constantly striving for speed.
The idea of slow living negates the belief that a successful person must be busy or fast, and encourages the person to be present consciously at every moment.
Life is better, not faster.
The idea of slow living is part of the broader slow movement that began in the 1980s in Italy.
After opening McDonald ’ s restaurants in the heart of Rome, Carlo Petrini and a group of activists formed a movement defending regional food traditions called Slow Food.
Over time, the movement has gained supporters in more than 150 countries, trying to encourage the enjoyment of good food and conscious consumption that encourages respect for seasonality, and to minimize the negative impact on the environment of food production.
Carlo Petrini ’ s idea began to take shape when he noticed the disconnect between farmer and consumer, due to the huge boutiques and fast food restaurants that fed central Rome and dramatically eroded local food traditions.
Carl Honoré, one of the most famous theorists of the idea of slow living, helped bring the idea to areas other than food when he published a book in Praise of Slow in 2004.
Awareness is growing about slow travel, slow thinking and slow action, all of which are examples of the different branches of the slow living movement.
Not all slowness is negative.
As more people were forced to slow down their lifestyle, interest in slow living increased during the epidemic period.
The search for the term slow life has increased by 4 times in Google and YouTube.
Although some of these images and videos depict a romantic rural life far from reality, for most people, the increase in research related to this content shows the desire to return to nature and seek hobbies closer to it, especially as a large number of people turned to remote work, which gave the opportunity to connect more with the self and search for what is truly pleasing, which is forgotten in the midst of a fast and breathless life.
The slow life movement gets rid of the negative connotations of the word "slow", which some may associate with laziness and non-productivity.
Carl Honoré explains the difference between good slowness and negative slowness, as good slowness is the deliberate slowness to do things at the right speed to achieve the best result.
On the other side, there is also good speed and bad speed.
Speed can be exciting and exhilarating in the right circumstances while the rush to finish things from just above the surface without going deep is just the opposite, because it causes distraction and is difficult to prioritize.
Essential elements of slow living
Slow living doesn ’ t mean we give up technology and fall back into old times, but it does help us give up distracting activities, make us reclaim our own time to become more present and aware of every moment in life, and help build stronger relationships and spend quality time with friends and children.
It also helps us build our own values, design the lifestyle that suits us, and dedicate time to what we ’ re really looking for, not what the fast-paced lifestyle of the planet forces us to do.
A slow life entails taking a break and redefining our relationship with things like a phone, tablet, or other gadgets like them, and then making room for screen-free time.
Honoré says, “The cornerstone of slow living is to form balanced and more humane relationships with modern technologies.
“We have to somehow learn when to go ahead with technology and when to slow down and stop moving between social media, the Netflix screen or even aimlessly surfing the internet. ”
Honoré also emphasizes the need to let go of the fear of rejection or being lost, and instead of trying to do everything, we should choose only what matters to us and touches us, without the worry of saying the word “no ”.
We must say no to everything that does not concern us and not increase the burden we place on ourselves.
We have to prioritize carefully and let everything else go, having grown tired of the speed with which we feel we are racing rather than actually living our lives.
We always wait for a moment other than the moment we live, which makes us feel that our lives are vanishing in vain.
Slow life solidifies deep pleasures and strong emotions, away from entertainment and shallow pleasures that fade away shortly and leave us burdened with feelings of frustration and loneliness.
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What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

Who is founder of the Slow Food Movement?

An Italian sociologist and activist
Carlo Petrini

What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

Who is founder of the Slow Food Movement?

An Italian sociologist and activist
Carlo Petrini

Slow Food grew into an international organisation with around 100,000 members in over 150 countries.

How many countries have members of Slow Food organization?

How many members does the Slow Food Movement have globally?

What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

The movement critiques the industrial food system for prioritising scale and efficiency while reducing transparency, harming local food traditions, and creating environmental impacts.

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

On returning to traditional food methods

Core tenets of Slow Food include conscious consumerism, respect for seasonality and locality, celebrating traditional culinary practices, and supporting resilient local food systems.

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

On returning to traditional food methods

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

On returning to traditional food methods

The movement encourages practical actions such as engaging directly with producers, shopping at farmers' markets, foraging, growing your own produce, and choosing venues aligned with slow-food values.

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

On returning to traditional food methods

What is the purpose of Taiwan's Taitung County Government ito hold the "SLOW SUPER Taitung Slow Farmer Market"?

To promote sustainable agricultural development

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the fragility of long industrial supply chains and helped raise interest in more resilient and local food approaches.

Contemporary proponents and initiatives mentioned include the global Slow Food organisation and local networks such as Taste Causeway and Slow Food Northern Ireland which promote accreditation, events, and local producers.

What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

Documents link the slow-food ethos with efforts to revive and preserve traditional regional cuisines through chefs, festivals, cooking classes and cultural promotion.

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Content: 'Reviving Culinary Heritage- The Role Of Embracing Traditional Meals'

The traditional diets are very healthy for the reason that; most of them are nutrient dense. Real-life cooking classes and food festivals that teach people about traditional healthy meals.

As the world and fast food dominate the culinary world traditional foods are under threat of extinction. Nevertheless, people continue to make efforts to restore these flavors, mainly because they are spices that are rich in taste, but also valuable historically.

Rediscovering Regional Flavours

Gastronomy is inseparable from history, culture, and geographical location for it incorporates all these aspects in specific dishes. It allows people to experience traditional food for the specific region with spices and preparations inherited from the past.
For example, the use of olive oil, fresh vegetables, and seafood which are compounded in the Mediterranean diet not only has a desired tasty feel to it but is also very healthy to the body.
In the same way, the complicated and hot meals in Indian food, created with the help of numerous spices, which are available locally are the result of historical processes of interactions and trading relations with different countries.

However, with emerging and busier societies, societies where convenience foods are the order of the day, these traditional dishes are being replaced. The fast food restaurants and other processed foods products while being easy and quick to prepare, process, and serve do not have the nutritional and cultural value found in the traditional foods.

The Health Benefits of Traditional Diets

The traditional diets are very healthy for the reason that; most of them are nutrient dense. For instance, the Japanese diet which is composed of fish, rice, and vegetables is credited with playing a role in increased life expectancy as well as low incidences of chronic diseases.

Many traditional diets are characterized by a large consumption of fresh foods, locally available vegetables, and lean meats, which are much healthier than the increasing amounts of sugars and fats present in today’s diets.Restoring traditional meals is thus a useful way of enhancing the well-being of society. In this way, one gets an opportunity to have tasty, healthy, and, at the same time, familiar meals that can be prepared according to traditional, time-proven patterns.

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Cultural Preservation Through Food

Food is central to cultural experience. Regional cuisines are regarded as being connected with the production and festive events of a particular region. They provide people with the feeling of identity and do not let persons feel abandoned, let alone tie them to their roots.

To maintain such culinary traditions as part of the cultural legacy, people try to bring back traditional dishes. It helps to pass the knowledge of these dishes to future generations and provides a link to the culture. Cooking and sharing traditional foods can also act as a way of encouraging people together since people will sit together to appreciate their traditional foods.

Economic and Environmental Benefits

Preserving regional dishes may also bring social, economic, and environmental benefits. It promotes the uptake of locally produced raw materials; this is advantageous to farmers, and it helps in curtailing the negative effects of transporting food products long distances. Also, traditional knowledge of agriculture yields ways that are more sustainable and conserve the environment.

The Role of Chefs and Food Enthusiasts

These two groups are critical to this revival because of the role they have to play in the food and culinary industry. By adding such traditional recipes to the current trends, the chefs can enlighten the younger generation about dishes from their past. Food bloggers and culinary influencers can then give these dishes context and gain attention and adoration.

In addition, real-life cooking classes and food festivals that teach people about traditional healthy meals can also help raise awareness and encourage people to incorporate these meals into their daily lives. It has the potential effect of popularizing techniques that result from traditional cooking methods, as it makes them easy to comprehend and learn.

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On returning to traditional food methods

On returning to traditional food methods

To sample authentic slow-food cuisine, the sources recommend visiting Slow Food-accredited destinations, local farmers' markets, regional food festivals, and producers who prioritise local ingredients and traditional preparations.

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

Enjoyment of good food
Conscious consumption

On returning to traditional food methods

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

Enjoyment of good food
Conscious consumption

On returning to traditional food methods

The original Slow Food roots are Italian and the movement remains tied to protecting regional Italian food traditions while inspiring similar efforts worldwide.

On returning to traditional food methods

What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

What is the birthplace of the slow food movement?

On returning to traditional food methods

What happened after the opening of McDonald's restaurants in Rome opened?

What is the birthplace of the slow food movement?

The broader slow philosophy has been extended beyond food into areas like slow travel, slow design and slow living, and theorists such as Carl Honoré helped spread the idea into those domains.

When planning travel to experience slow food, the documents advise prioritising local markets, smaller producers, and events that foreground seasonality and place over touristified, chain offerings.

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

On returning to traditional food methods

What are the supporters of slow food movement advocating?

On returning to traditional food methods

In short, Slow Food started in Italy as a reaction to fast food, grew into a global movement that values seasonality, locality and traditional cooking, and the best way to sample authentic slow-food experiences is to visit accredited destinations, farmers' markets, regional festivals and producers who foreground local ingredients.


A University of New Hampshire researcher found openness to conspiracies including 'the Earth is flat' is significantly higher among Millennials and supporters of former President Trump.

The researcher described social media and YouTube recommendation algorithms as creating 'rabbit holes' that boost exposure to flat Earth content.

The study reported a partisan decline in trust in scientists, with conservatives showing reduced trust in institutions such as the CDC, which can correlate with receptiveness to conspiracies.

The report found millennials, and to a lesser extent Gen Z, are less skeptical of these conspiracies than older generations.

The researcher warned that simple fact sheets rarely persuade believers and recommended that scientists stay engaged across public channels and make conclusions accessible.

Media reporting cites NBA player Kyrie Irving as having at one time expressed belief in a flat Earth and notes that scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson publicly reacted.

The provided documents do not name specific organizations in particular countries that promote flat Earth beliefs, nor do they catalogue flat-Earth proofs in detail.

From these documents, the main drivers of the contemporary resurgence are social media amplification, generational exposure, and declining partisan trust in scientific institutions.

Based on the provided documents, this appears driven more by online amplification and demographic trends than by named organized groups, so measured parental guidance and conversation is a reasonable response rather than immediate alarm.

A University of New Hampshire researcher found openness to conspiracies including 'the Earth is flat' is significantly higher among Millennials and supporters of former President Trump.

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Who's most likely to be open to conspiracy theories? UNH research points to millennials and Trump supporters

Who are the groups most likely to believe in conspiracy theories? That’s the question a University of New Hampshire researcher recently set out to solve.

Sociology professor Lawrence Hamilton looked into national survey data gauging public beliefs in several conspiracy theories, including: "NASA astronauts did not really land on the Moon" and "The Earth is flat, not round."

After digging into that data, Hamilton found "acceptance or openness to conspiracy beliefs was significantly higher among certain subgroups, including Millennials and supporters of ex-president Trump."

NHPR’s Rick Ganley talked with Hamilton about his findings — and the role social media plays in spreading conspiracy theories. Below is a transcript of their conversation, lightly edited for clarity.

Read more about Hamilton's research here.

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Rick Ganley: It's worth noting that some of these conspiracy theories are old. Some are more recent. But all of them seemingly were given a boost by social media. And it's not hard to find false information, obviously, about topics online. Did you find it used to be much harder to hear about or be convinced of something like this?

Lawrence Hamilton: Well, I've never asked these questions before, so I don't have my own data. There are Gallup polls going back to the late 1990s that seem to find much smaller fractions of people thinking that the moon landings were faked, for example. So there's some kind of indirect evidence. I don't know if anybody tracked it very well. The number of people who've heard about these theories [that's] rising are the people who are drawn into them. And I'm sure that YouTube and social media — people describe it as a rabbit hole, where if you start watching one video [alleging the Earth is flat], they'll recommend another one for you. And pretty soon it seems like the whole world is all about flat Earth.

Rick Ganley: Your research looked into the political leanings of people who responded. What did you find there?

Lawrence Hamilton: We did find a political correlation, and that wasn't a foregone conclusion, because I had specifically chosen conspiracy theories that are not known to have a clear political [connection]. I mean, there's been a lot of research going back really to the 1960s on the paranoid style in American politics that has found conspiracy theories are more popular among conservatives across a range of issues. In the 1950s, it was conspiracies by Communist infiltration in the U.S. government. Now, it may be conspiracies directed at politicians — [alleging without evidence that former President Barack] Obama is a Muslim, or [President Joe] Biden stole the 2020 election — and others that are targeted at scientists, like climate change is a hoax, COVID-19 is a hoax or COVID precautions or vaccines are a hoax. And I chose none of those. I chose things like: ‘The moon landings were fake,’ or ‘Earth is flat,’ ‘Vaccines implant microchips.’ So it was interesting to find that even there, there's a conservative preference.

Rick Ganley: A lot of this does come down to faith in science and academics and what so-called experts have to say. Do you see this as evidence of a decline in faith in institutions?

Lawrence Hamilton: Well, I would say there's a decline — and this is something we do have data on — there's a wide decline in trust in scientists, and it's largely partisan. It's not so much happening among people who self-identify as liberal or moderate. But among people who identify as conservative or very conservative, there's definitely a decline in trust in scientists. The COVID pandemic was an interesting case in point, because we were actually tracking this on surveys, and trust in the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] took an enormous nosedive over space about four months, specifically among conservatives. Other groups didn't change. But the conservative trust in the CDC took this huge dive when [former President] Donald Trump's tweeting turned from praising the CDC to attacking it. And with that flip, conservative trust in the CDC flipped as well, and nobody else has changed much.

Rick Ganley: Your research also highlighted a pattern having to do with age. Respondents who classify themselves as millennials, that is those born between 1981 and 1996, were the most likely to agree with some of the conspiracies that you posed. And Gen Zs, I guess, were also more inclined than older respondents. What did you find there?

Lawrence Hamilton: Well, some of that corresponded to previous surveys. There's a section at the end of our report where we say, well, how does this compare with what other people have found? Just as a reality check. And that's been reported by a number of other studies as well. So millennials in particular, and Gen Z to a slightly lesser extent, were much less skeptical about the conspiracies compared with boomers or older generations. And one explanation that's been offered for that, well, two explanations: Regarding the moon landings, of course, older generations lived through those and remember the national pride and excitement and so forth, whereas [for] younger generations, it's something in the history books. So maybe they don't have that sense of having been there when it happened. But the other thing is that you could expect younger generations to be more engaged with social media, which for some people could take them down these rabbit holes again.

Rick Ganley: Does your research have any suggestions on how to stop people from believing in conspiracy theories?

Lawrence Hamilton: That's a real hard one because there's this tendency to get into information silos where all you hear are the voices that reinforce your prejudices. And a thing about conspiracies is that they will give you a reason to reject anything that contradicts them. People have been seeing [the science behind] climate change for a long time, [and] you can't go in with fact sheets. That doesn't persuade anybody. They'll just become convinced that you're part of the hoax, too. There aren't any simple answers. The strongest recommendation is that scientists stay engaged in public communication through every channel they have, and that they try to make their conclusions understandable or accessible to people from a lot of different walks of life who obviously are not reading the peer review journals.

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The researcher described social media and YouTube recommendation algorithms as creating 'rabbit holes' that boost exposure to flat Earth content.

The study reported a partisan decline in trust in scientists, with conservatives showing reduced trust in institutions such as the CDC, which can correlate with receptiveness to conspiracies.

The report found millennials, and to a lesser extent Gen Z, are less skeptical of these conspiracies than older generations.

The researcher warned that simple fact sheets rarely persuade believers and recommended that scientists stay engaged across public channels and make conclusions accessible.

Media reporting cites NBA player Kyrie Irving as having at one time expressed belief in a flat Earth and notes that scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson publicly reacted.

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Content: Kyrie Irving’s Flat Earth Theory Revisited: How Did Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson React to It?

Tonoy Sengupta
|Sun Oct 16 2022

Kyrie Irving has some rather interesting theory on the planet we live on

Kyrie Irving sure is an interesting guy.

Of course, his ability on the basketball is a sight to behold. However, his thoughts and ideologies off it are something the NBA community has had its eye on for a long time too.

Over the years, he has come to be known as the man who is absent from the team for about half the year tending to one cause or another. Though it must be noted that there is a massive amount of exaggeration at play in all the conversations regarding them.

But frankly, his tendency to take holidays off work isn’t exactly weak either.

However, this is Kyrie during his most recent years in the league, a stark contrast to how he was at the start of his career. But it had to have started somewhere, right?

Well, apparently it did. And frankly, fans should’ve known the kind of person they were in for after this little incident was revealed.

Also Read: When Dennis Rodman teared up after his friend North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un met with former US President Donald Trump

Kyrie Irving once believed the Earth is Flat

There are shockingly a whole bunch of Flat Earthers on this planet of ours to this day. And apparently, Kyrie Irving was once a part of that army.

Now admittedly, the original clip of him admitting he believes in the Flat Earth theory can no longer be found. However, there are several clips of him justifying his stance on the matter, one of which is right here, below.

There are also clips of him claiming that he was only joking when he spoke about believing the flat earth theory, so frankly, he may deserve to be cut some slack here. Furthermore, even if he believed it several years ago, there is a strong chance that his beliefs have changed completely.

However, if the man still believes in the theory, that is quite something, isn’t it?

At this point, even most scientists would probably just find themselves chuckling on the matter, rather than be exasperated.

But until Irving announces his current beliefs, one can only speculate.

Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared his thoughts on Kyrie Irving’s backing of the Flat Earth theory

When it comes to scientists, Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably the most well-liked one out there, on the face of this planet.

Whenever he is brought on a show of any kind, he has been asked questions about space, aliens, and even some questions on theoretical physics concepts, such as the Multiverse theory.

But never had he been asked to react to a basketball player in any kind of way. Or at least, that wasn’t the case, until the Kyrie Irving incident.

And here was his reaction.

While he does seem to be speaking facts, and trying to go about this in a logical manner, he does seem a tad bit snarkier than usual.

We can’t imagine Kyrie Irving being the biggest fan of that.

Also Read: Michael Jordan, Who Refused to Back Black Political Candidates, Appreciated ‘Bishop of Brixton’ Jimmy Rogers’ Communal Work

About the author

Tonoy Sengupta

I've always been someone surrounded by sports. At 15 though, Basketball was brought to my attention, and I absolutely fell in love with it. At 21 now, I look to share the joy I feel with the world through my articles.

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What NBA star claimed that the earth is flat?

The provided documents do not name specific organizations in particular countries that promote flat Earth beliefs, nor do they catalogue flat-Earth proofs in detail.

From these documents, the main drivers of the contemporary resurgence are social media amplification, generational exposure, and declining partisan trust in scientific institutions.

Based on the provided documents, this appears driven more by online amplification and demographic trends than by named organized groups, so measured parental guidance and conversation is a reasonable response rather than immediate alarm.


A University of New Hampshire study by sociology professor Lawrence Hamilton found that acceptance or openness to conspiracy beliefs, including the idea that the Earth is flat, was significantly higher among millennials and supporters of former President Trump.

The NHPR coverage of Hamilton's research reports that social media and YouTube can create 'rabbit holes' by recommending sequential videos that increase exposure to flat Earth and other conspiratorial content.

Hamilton's analysis identified a partisan decline in trust in scientists and scientific institutions, with conservatives showing notably lower trust in agencies such as the CDC during the COVID-19 period.

The research found that millennials, and to a slightly lesser extent Generation Z, were more likely than older generations to be open to conspiratorial claims such as the moon landings being fake or the Earth being flat.

Hamilton and the NHPR transcript note that younger generations' heavier engagement with social media is one possible explanation for their greater exposure and susceptibility to these theories.

The coverage emphasizes that conspiracy believers often become insulated in information silos that reject contradictory evidence, making simple fact sheets ineffective at persuading them.

Hamilton recommended that scientists remain engaged in public communication across many channels and make scientific conclusions accessible to diverse audiences.

Popular culture has occasionally intersected with flat Earth claims; for example, media reporting indicates that NBA player Kyrie Irving once expressed belief in a flat Earth.

The same media piece on Kyrie Irving reports he later said he was joking about his flat Earth comments and that his current beliefs are not clearly documented in the article.

Science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson publicly reacted to Kyrie Irving's past support for the flat Earth idea according to the article.

The provided documents do not name specific organizations in various countries that promote flat Earth beliefs.

The documents do not provide detailed lists of public figures beyond the example of Kyrie Irving, nor do they catalog country-specific promoters or organizations.

From the available context, the contemporary resurgence of flat Earth belief is attributed primarily to social media amplification and to declining trust in scientific institutions among certain political groups.

The provided documents do not present evidence that flat Earth communities are inherently violent or dangerous.

Because the context is limited, there is insufficient information here to compile comprehensive demographic profiles or to list nation-by-nation organizations that promote flat Earth beliefs.

Based on the provided documents, social media amplification and declining trust in scientific institutions are the main drivers of renewed flat Earth belief, and while there is no direct evidence here that flat Earther families are dangerous, it is reasonable for a parent to talk openly with their teen and be cautious about new influences.

A University of New Hampshire study by sociology professor Lawrence Hamilton found that acceptance or openness to conspiracy beliefs, including the idea that the Earth is flat, was significantly higher among millennials and supporters of former President Trump.

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Who's most likely to be open to conspiracy theories? UNH research points to millennials and Trump supporters

Who are the groups most likely to believe in conspiracy theories? That’s the question a University of New Hampshire researcher recently set out to solve.

Sociology professor Lawrence Hamilton looked into national survey data gauging public beliefs in several conspiracy theories, including: "NASA astronauts did not really land on the Moon" and "The Earth is flat, not round."

After digging into that data, Hamilton found "acceptance or openness to conspiracy beliefs was significantly higher among certain subgroups, including Millennials and supporters of ex-president Trump."

NHPR’s Rick Ganley talked with Hamilton about his findings — and the role social media plays in spreading conspiracy theories. Below is a transcript of their conversation, lightly edited for clarity.

Read more about Hamilton's research here.

Transcript

Rick Ganley: It's worth noting that some of these conspiracy theories are old. Some are more recent. But all of them seemingly were given a boost by social media. And it's not hard to find false information, obviously, about topics online. Did you find it used to be much harder to hear about or be convinced of something like this?

Lawrence Hamilton: Well, I've never asked these questions before, so I don't have my own data. There are Gallup polls going back to the late 1990s that seem to find much smaller fractions of people thinking that the moon landings were faked, for example. So there's some kind of indirect evidence. I don't know if anybody tracked it very well. The number of people who've heard about these theories [that's] rising are the people who are drawn into them. And I'm sure that YouTube and social media — people describe it as a rabbit hole, where if you start watching one video [alleging the Earth is flat], they'll recommend another one for you. And pretty soon it seems like the whole world is all about flat Earth.

Rick Ganley: Your research looked into the political leanings of people who responded. What did you find there?

Lawrence Hamilton: We did find a political correlation, and that wasn't a foregone conclusion, because I had specifically chosen conspiracy theories that are not known to have a clear political [connection]. I mean, there's been a lot of research going back really to the 1960s on the paranoid style in American politics that has found conspiracy theories are more popular among conservatives across a range of issues. In the 1950s, it was conspiracies by Communist infiltration in the U.S. government. Now, it may be conspiracies directed at politicians — [alleging without evidence that former President Barack] Obama is a Muslim, or [President Joe] Biden stole the 2020 election — and others that are targeted at scientists, like climate change is a hoax, COVID-19 is a hoax or COVID precautions or vaccines are a hoax. And I chose none of those. I chose things like: ‘The moon landings were fake,’ or ‘Earth is flat,’ ‘Vaccines implant microchips.’ So it was interesting to find that even there, there's a conservative preference.

Rick Ganley: A lot of this does come down to faith in science and academics and what so-called experts have to say. Do you see this as evidence of a decline in faith in institutions?

Lawrence Hamilton: Well, I would say there's a decline — and this is something we do have data on — there's a wide decline in trust in scientists, and it's largely partisan. It's not so much happening among people who self-identify as liberal or moderate. But among people who identify as conservative or very conservative, there's definitely a decline in trust in scientists. The COVID pandemic was an interesting case in point, because we were actually tracking this on surveys, and trust in the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] took an enormous nosedive over space about four months, specifically among conservatives. Other groups didn't change. But the conservative trust in the CDC took this huge dive when [former President] Donald Trump's tweeting turned from praising the CDC to attacking it. And with that flip, conservative trust in the CDC flipped as well, and nobody else has changed much.

Rick Ganley: Your research also highlighted a pattern having to do with age. Respondents who classify themselves as millennials, that is those born between 1981 and 1996, were the most likely to agree with some of the conspiracies that you posed. And Gen Zs, I guess, were also more inclined than older respondents. What did you find there?

Lawrence Hamilton: Well, some of that corresponded to previous surveys. There's a section at the end of our report where we say, well, how does this compare with what other people have found? Just as a reality check. And that's been reported by a number of other studies as well. So millennials in particular, and Gen Z to a slightly lesser extent, were much less skeptical about the conspiracies compared with boomers or older generations. And one explanation that's been offered for that, well, two explanations: Regarding the moon landings, of course, older generations lived through those and remember the national pride and excitement and so forth, whereas [for] younger generations, it's something in the history books. So maybe they don't have that sense of having been there when it happened. But the other thing is that you could expect younger generations to be more engaged with social media, which for some people could take them down these rabbit holes again.

Rick Ganley: Does your research have any suggestions on how to stop people from believing in conspiracy theories?

Lawrence Hamilton: That's a real hard one because there's this tendency to get into information silos where all you hear are the voices that reinforce your prejudices. And a thing about conspiracies is that they will give you a reason to reject anything that contradicts them. People have been seeing [the science behind] climate change for a long time, [and] you can't go in with fact sheets. That doesn't persuade anybody. They'll just become convinced that you're part of the hoax, too. There aren't any simple answers. The strongest recommendation is that scientists stay engaged in public communication through every channel they have, and that they try to make their conclusions understandable or accessible to people from a lot of different walks of life who obviously are not reading the peer review journals.

You make NHPR possible.

NHPR is nonprofit and independent. We rely on readers like you to support the local, national, and international coverage on this website. Your support makes this news available to everyone.

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The NHPR coverage of Hamilton's research reports that social media and YouTube can create 'rabbit holes' by recommending sequential videos that increase exposure to flat Earth and other conspiratorial content.

Hamilton's analysis identified a partisan decline in trust in scientists and scientific institutions, with conservatives showing notably lower trust in agencies such as the CDC during the COVID-19 period.

The research found that millennials, and to a slightly lesser extent Generation Z, were more likely than older generations to be open to conspiratorial claims such as the moon landings being fake or the Earth being flat.

Hamilton and the NHPR transcript note that younger generations' heavier engagement with social media is one possible explanation for their greater exposure and susceptibility to these theories.

The coverage emphasizes that conspiracy believers often become insulated in information silos that reject contradictory evidence, making simple fact sheets ineffective at persuading them.

Hamilton recommended that scientists remain engaged in public communication across many channels and make scientific conclusions accessible to diverse audiences.

Popular culture has occasionally intersected with flat Earth claims; for example, media reporting indicates that NBA player Kyrie Irving once expressed belief in a flat Earth.

Title:

Content: Kyrie Irving’s Flat Earth Theory Revisited: How Did Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson React to It?

Tonoy Sengupta
|Sun Oct 16 2022

Kyrie Irving has some rather interesting theory on the planet we live on

Kyrie Irving sure is an interesting guy.

Of course, his ability on the basketball is a sight to behold. However, his thoughts and ideologies off it are something the NBA community has had its eye on for a long time too.

Over the years, he has come to be known as the man who is absent from the team for about half the year tending to one cause or another. Though it must be noted that there is a massive amount of exaggeration at play in all the conversations regarding them.

But frankly, his tendency to take holidays off work isn’t exactly weak either.

However, this is Kyrie during his most recent years in the league, a stark contrast to how he was at the start of his career. But it had to have started somewhere, right?

Well, apparently it did. And frankly, fans should’ve known the kind of person they were in for after this little incident was revealed.

Also Read: When Dennis Rodman teared up after his friend North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un met with former US President Donald Trump

Kyrie Irving once believed the Earth is Flat

There are shockingly a whole bunch of Flat Earthers on this planet of ours to this day. And apparently, Kyrie Irving was once a part of that army.

Now admittedly, the original clip of him admitting he believes in the Flat Earth theory can no longer be found. However, there are several clips of him justifying his stance on the matter, one of which is right here, below.

There are also clips of him claiming that he was only joking when he spoke about believing the flat earth theory, so frankly, he may deserve to be cut some slack here. Furthermore, even if he believed it several years ago, there is a strong chance that his beliefs have changed completely.

However, if the man still believes in the theory, that is quite something, isn’t it?

At this point, even most scientists would probably just find themselves chuckling on the matter, rather than be exasperated.

But until Irving announces his current beliefs, one can only speculate.

Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared his thoughts on Kyrie Irving’s backing of the Flat Earth theory

When it comes to scientists, Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably the most well-liked one out there, on the face of this planet.

Whenever he is brought on a show of any kind, he has been asked questions about space, aliens, and even some questions on theoretical physics concepts, such as the Multiverse theory.

But never had he been asked to react to a basketball player in any kind of way. Or at least, that wasn’t the case, until the Kyrie Irving incident.

And here was his reaction.

While he does seem to be speaking facts, and trying to go about this in a logical manner, he does seem a tad bit snarkier than usual.

We can’t imagine Kyrie Irving being the biggest fan of that.

Also Read: Michael Jordan, Who Refused to Back Black Political Candidates, Appreciated ‘Bishop of Brixton’ Jimmy Rogers’ Communal Work

About the author

Tonoy Sengupta

I've always been someone surrounded by sports. At 15 though, Basketball was brought to my attention, and I absolutely fell in love with it. At 21 now, I look to share the joy I feel with the world through my articles.

Read more from Tonoy Sengupta

What NBA star claimed that the earth is flat?

The same media piece on Kyrie Irving reports he later said he was joking about his flat Earth comments and that his current beliefs are not clearly documented in the article.

What NBA star claimed that the earth is flat?

Science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson publicly reacted to Kyrie Irving's past support for the flat Earth idea according to the article.

What NBA star claimed that the earth is flat?

The provided documents do not name specific organizations in various countries that promote flat Earth beliefs.

The documents do not provide detailed lists of public figures beyond the example of Kyrie Irving, nor do they catalog country-specific promoters or organizations.

What NBA star claimed that the earth is flat?

What NBA star claimed that the earth is flat?

From the available context, the contemporary resurgence of flat Earth belief is attributed primarily to social media amplification and to declining trust in scientific institutions among certain political groups.

The provided documents do not present evidence that flat Earth communities are inherently violent or dangerous.

Because the context is limited, there is insufficient information here to compile comprehensive demographic profiles or to list nation-by-nation organizations that promote flat Earth beliefs.

Based on the provided documents, social media amplification and declining trust in scientific institutions are the main drivers of renewed flat Earth belief, and while there is no direct evidence here that flat Earther families are dangerous, it is reasonable for a parent to talk openly with their teen and be cautious about new influences.