• Prevents the exploitation of farmers, workers and natural resources and the cruel treatment of animals;
• Informs customers of how food is produced, where it comes from, and what it contains;
• Protects the finite resources of productive soils, fresh water, and biological diversity;
• Strives to remove fossil fuel from every link in the food chain and replace it with renewable resources and energy;
• Originates from a biological rather than an industrial framework;
• Requires a national dialog concerning technologies used in production.
The final principle affirms "the development of just and sustainable regional farm and food networks."
"Most all the major organizations seeking reform in agriculture in the U.S. have signed on to the Declaration. The challenge remains to bring in more of the current mainstream," ROC president Dimock explained in a phone interview from his home in Santa Rosa, Northern California. "Slow Food Nation is part of a mosaic that can help change food policy in the U.S.," according to Dimock.
(Dr. Shepherd Bliss, sbliss@hawaii.edu, currently teaches at Sonoma State University, has run an organic farm since l992, and has chapters on agropsychology and agrotherapy scheduled for books next year.)
• Informs customers of how food is produced, where it comes from, and what it contains;
• Protects the finite resources of productive soils, fresh water, and biological diversity;
• Strives to remove fossil fuel from every link in the food chain and replace it with renewable resources and energy;
• Requires a national dialog concerning technologies used in production.
The final principle affirms "the development of just and sustainable regional farm and food networks."
"Most all the major organizations seeking reform in agriculture in the U.S. have signed on to the Declaration. The challenge remains to bring in more of the current mainstream," ROC president Dimock explained in a phone interview from his home in Santa Rosa, Northern California. "Slow Food Nation is part of a mosaic that can help change food policy in the U.S.," according to Dimock.
(Dr. Shepherd Bliss, sbliss@hawaii.edu, currently teaches at Sonoma State University, has run an organic farm since l992, and has chapters on agropsychology and agrotherapy scheduled for books next year.)
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