"The Slow Shall Inherit the Earth." -anonymous gastronome

        In “Good, Clean, Fair: The Rhetoric of Slow Food Movement,” Stephen Schneider tackles the rising, dangerous currents of the industrial agriculture with his introduction of Carlo Petrini’s Slow Food Movement. Schneider addresses issues concerning the industrial agriculture throughout his piece with gastronomy as its focal point. Gastronomy is the relationship between culture and food with a consistent perspective of the table as a “science.”  Slow Food’s enticing, yet controversial movement aims to redefine gastronomy by “relocating food as the center of human culture,” while its name suggests the same.  By reconstructing the core of human culture, consumers hold the power to put a halt on the fast paced life as they recede from capitalism and globalization. The rhetoric of the Slow Food Movement is encompassed by good food that fosters a connection to a geographic region, clean food that facilitates in preserving the environment, and fair food whose production is equitable.



Schneider, Stephen. (2008) Good, Clean, Fair: The Rhetoric of the Slow Food Movement. College English 70.4, 384-401.