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Local Food Tasting
Wednesday January 24th, 8pm Danforth LoungeThe impromptu culinary club is bringing a student chapter of Slow Food USA to campus (www.slowfood.com). Several local producers/organizations have generously donated bread, cheese, cured meat, and other foods for the event. So come eat some tasty free food

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Food. Its all about the food. Local is great - but mostly because of the freshness issue rather than anything else. The 'sustainability' thing usually encompasses a whole range of assumptions about what is best or what isn't. However, the upshot is generally that the focus is on foods that have a premium price that exclude the people that could be most helped by a greater appreciation of 'slow' foods. As such this sort of thing ends up being aimed at the economic and social elite with only lip service being paid to the underclass. Its also generally is a rejection of green revolution techniques that have allowed the world to have 8 billion people on it with a lower level of famine and hunger than we've ever seen in the history of humanity. Less than 70 years ago famine and malnutrition was a serious concern - even in the United States. Now, for the most part, hunger is a result of political unrest and transportation infrastructure rather than not having enough food. A lot of slow foodists I know either want to, essentially, return to those times to create a two teired system of the haves and have nots. I can't support that which is why I just focus on the food.

Sorry this is so late, work has been a mess.