The Slow Food movement was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy as a resistance movement to combat fast food. It claims to preserve the cultural cuisine and the associated food plants and seeds, domestic animals, and farming within an ecoregion. It was the first established part of the broader Slow movement. The movement has since expanded globally to over 83,000 members in 122 countries.

Not many of us link our soy chai latte or our occasional fast food splurge with Amazon deforestation. However, travel up the Amazon river and you’ll be greeted not by endless lush forest, but by soy farms and cattle ranches.We’re all familiar with the statistic: every minute, an area of forest the size of five football fields is clear-cut...

Statistics show that the level of childhood obesity in America is amongst the highest in the world, and a major cause of obesity is a diet of fast food, or food that is high in fat or sugar.