This may be the beginning of the backlash against fast food. Carlo Petrini of Italy launched Slow Food in protest against McDonald's in the 1970s. Now there are 60,000 members in forty-two countries. Fast food has become frantic food. Slow food is as much about caring, community, conversation, consideration and kinship as it is about eating.
Fast food is self-centred, slow food nourishes relationships.
Jules Pretty exposes the myth and highlights the hidden costs of modern farming. Vandana Shiva shows how industrial methods of farming cause hunger, deprive small farmers of their long-term livelihoods and create a culture of scarcity. Having analysed the problems, we also look at the solutions. Colin Spencer and Sarah Brown believe that we need to reduce our dependence on mass production of meat and go for a plant-based diet. George Monbiot urges us to go organic and local.