SLOW Food has been fighting for the rights of consumers to buy raw milk and the rights of cheesemakers to make cheese from raw milk for almost two decades, and its biennial event, Cheese , has long been a forum for publicising the issue.
A RESPONDENT to Slow Food in Australia’s campaign that supports the right of cheesemakers to produce cheese from raw milk, and for people to drink it, was wonderfully succinct: ‘Smoking is okay, but raw milk cheese very dangerous????’. Our blogger has gone to the heart of the challenge facing Australia’s health and food authorities. Smoking kills more than 15,000 Australians a year and, according to the Australian Council on Smoking and Health, smoking-related disease costs the nation $31 billion
AUSTRALIA’s wessex saddleback pig has been included in Slow Food’s Foundation for Biodiversity Ark of Taste register. The Australian Ark Commission’s chair, food journalist Cherry Ripe, led the argument for listing the breed in the international register, by which Slow Food highlights the conservation of foods at risk of loss. The wessex saddleback has become extinct in its native Britain but purebred strains imported to Australia early last century have led to the preservation of this important foraging breed
SLOW Food Perth is encouraging all Slow Food convivia in Australia to work together to adapt the campaign called Food Day that will be held on 24 October 2011 in the United States.
SLOW Food members in Australia will have the opportunity to exchange ideas about the development of the organisation with Slow Food international executive director Paolo Di Croce and Asia-Oceania programme director Elena Aniere when they visit Australia towards the end of May 2011.
SLOW Food members Peter Kenyon and John Newton have encouraged Sydneysiders to use Sydney’s Seasonal Food: A Slow Food Guide as one means of supporting Sydney region farmers and fishermen.
SYDNEY organic grocer and Slow Food Sydney treasurer Peter Kenyon has told the North Shore Times that natural disasters early this year have shown that Australia’s food supply cannot be taken for granted.
Some of Australia’s top science and engineering students have begun a ten-week, hands-on work experience program at CSIRO Plant Industry’s research facilities in Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide and Narrabri.
TODAY – 10 December 2010 – 1119 Terra Madre Day events are being held in every corner of the world, in 124 countries, as local celebrations of local food by Slow Food and its Terra Madre network. From Australia and New Zealand to the Americas and Europe, Slow Food members, producers, food communities, cooks, academics, young people and musicians have united in a collective global celebration of local food that’s good, clean and fair
More efficient use of farm inputs is critical to ensuring continued productivity growth in Australia and New Zealand agriculture, according to CSIRO scientist Dr Michael Robertson.
