The Benefits Of Slow Food

There are several issues with Slow Food’s goals, especially with a growing urban population and expanding gap between the rich and poor. First, the manifesto denies the potential benefits of modern food production. Our modern technology is extremely powerful, and if used correctly, should be seen as a major asset in taking on the task of feeding a growing population. For example, “foodies” in the United States consider handmade tortillas to be a traditional symbol of authentic Mexican cuisine. However, handmade tortillas is a painstaking process, and the mass production of tortillas is what allows low-income Mexican workers to enjoy their traditional cuisine on a daily basis (Leitch 2010). To believe that technology is inherently evil is to

Slow Food is in fact using marketing tactics to increase sales for smallholder farmers, which is entirely dependent on the commodification of food. It is also not logistically possible for every person/family on the planet to live entirely off of subsistence farming, especially in dense urban settings. Being able to locally grow enough food in order to survive in a time of crisis is possible, but some level of commodity exchange will always be necessary. We must also consider the fact that mechanization is what first allowed women to be productive outside of the home, which is no small feat. If we were to “return to the kitchen” it must be a shared responsibility between all community members, so that nobody has to sacrifice their career in order to prepare homemade

Any given person does not need a college degree to enjoy delicious, healthy, and sustainably produced food, and shouldn’t need one to be able to access such basic human pleasures. Since each culture has a different idea of what qualifies as “good food”, it makes more sense to equip all people with the economic prosperity to be able to access the tools needed to make these