Slow Food, the podcast

Slow Food Goes Brussels: The paradoxes of animal welfare in Europe.

The protection of animal welfare on farms has gained momentum in recent years in Europe, with more and more EU citizens calling for the end of their cruel exploitation. And this is with good reason, for farm animals are considered as mere profit machines.

You’ve all seen those images of cows, pigs or chicken packed into tight cages or confined to small spaces where they spend a short but painful life. In a never-ending quest for profit, industrial farming allows farm animals to be mutilated, abused, crammed together, fed with low quality feed, and transported across the world in dreadful conditions. Overall farm animals are prevented to live according to their natural needs.

Yet, it is said that the European Union has the most advanced legislation in the world regarding animal welfare standards. So why such a gap between the European law and farming practices on the ground? How bad is the state of animal welfare in Europe, and what is being done at the EU level to right such wrongs? Also, what alternatives are there to industrial animal farming? You want the answers to these questions? No worries, Slow Food Europe investigated for you! In this episode, you will hear different points of view on this topic from:

• Jacopo Goracci, farmer of local ancient breeds of cows and pigs in rural Tuscany (Italy) and coordinator of a Slow Food presidium
• Andrea Gavinelli, who is in charge of the animal welfare unit at the EU Commission
• Olga Kikou, European Affairs Manager at the organization Compassion in World Farming

Do not hesitate to follow @SlowFoodEurope on Twitter, as well as our guests: @Olga_CIWF, @CIWF_EU and @andreagavinelli. And if you don’t yet follow SFYN on Instagram, time to catch up!

 

Host: Alice Poiron
Production, editing: Valentina Gritti
Music: Leonardo Prieto

A project by Slow Food Youth Network

 

Financed by the European Union. The contents of this podcast are the sole responsibility of the author and CINEA is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

Bites of: entrepreneurship with Jam Melchor

Starting a new format: "Bites of" in which we dig into a specific topic with a young expert in the Slow Food Youth Network. 
The host in this episode is Jam Melchor, founder of the successful food delivery business "Yes Plate" in Manila, The Philippines. 

What are the keys for success in a food business? How to keep up with competitors and how to face moments of crisis? What is the importance of networking and how do you select the people in your team? 

Host, production & editing: Valentina Gritti
Guest: Jam Melchor
Design: Pop-eye
Music: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes

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Eating plant-based with Azul Meyer Mijares

What does plant-based diet mean? Can it be connected to our food traditions? How can we tropicalize our food with local ingredients? We will talk about this and much more in this exciting conversation with Azul Meyer Mijares, gastronome, photographer, chef and founder of @Hojazul from Cholula, Mexico. 

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Host, production & editing: Valentina Gritti
Guest: Azul Meyer Mijares
Design: Pop-eye
Music: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes
Song: Simona en el mercado by Son De Aquí

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[EN] Carlo Petrini: regenerating activism.

In this episode we are interviewing Carlo Petrini, founder and president of Slow Food. He will share with us his experience as an activist. We will also discuss the evolution of youth activism, the concept of gastronomy and the importance of regenerating our food system. We will also get some insights on the current vision of the Slow Food movement.
A special thank to Jonas Pfannenstiel for translation and dubbing.

Host, production & editing: Valentina Gritti
Guest: Carlo Petrini 
Design: Pop-eye
Music: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes

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[IT] Carlo Petrini: rigenerando l’attivismo.

[English version will be published on Monday 4th of April!]
In questo episodio intervistiamo Carlo Petrini, il fondatore e presidente di Slow Food, sulla sua esperienza da attivista. Trattiamo tematiche come l'evoluzione dell'attivismo giovanile e del concetto di gastronomia, l'importanza di rigenerare il nostro sistema alimentare e la visione attuale del movimento di Slow Food. 

Host, produzione & edizione: Valentina Gritti
Ospite: Carlo Petrini 
Design: Pop-eye

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SFYN podcast in 2022

Hello everyone and welcome back to the SFYN podcast. Slow Food Youth Network, or SFYN as we call it, is a worldwide movement of young activists with different backgrounds who want to contribute to a better local and international food system. If you’ve been following our podcast for a while, you know what the SFYN Podcast is all about, but what are our plans for the coming year? Have a listen what's coming up this year. Talk soon!

Youth on political activism, sustainable food systems and their relationship to the EU

Take a break from December feasts and listen to the last episode of the SFYN podcast focused on EU food policies, in which we actually do not speak about EU food policies. While you are all recovering from delicious but intense end of the year festivities, let us talk to you about youth. These past years, young people from around the world have raised their voices, and took up the fight against climate change, inequalities, racism, war, corruption, you name it. Young people hold a great power to change the world, and more and more of them have decided to use this power to get their message across. 

Mid-December, members of the Slow Food Youth Network in Europe and students at the Slow Food’s University of Gastronomic Science gathered in Bra, in northern Italy. It was a great opportunity for us to sit down with a few of them and discuss about their views on political activism, their desire to see a sustainable food system happening in Europe and beyond, and their relationship to the European Union.

• • Jorrit, president of SFYN
  • Mallory, American student at the Slow Food’s University of Gastronomic Science (UNISG)
  • Paolo, member of SFYN in Sardegna
  • Lianne, president of SFYN Netherlands

Do not hesitate to follow @SlowFoodEurope on Twitter, but you can also follow SFYN and UNISG on Instagram and explore what young Slow Food activists are up to! See you in 2022!

Host: Alice Poiron
Production, editing and music: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes
A project by Slow Food Youth Network

Financed by the European Union. The contents of this podcast are the sole responsibility of the author and the EASME is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

COP26: What‘s on the menu for food and farming?

Time for EU food policy! In this episode, Slow Food Europe talks about climate!

Few weeks ago, world leaders met in Glasgow for the COP26! Alas, this crucial international summit on climate change ended with a disappointing agreement, just when the expectations of civil society, young people, indigenous peoples, and all those affected by the climate emergency were highest. What’s more, despite causing approximately 30% of all atmospheric carbon, there was little said about food and farming.

Now that the COP26 is behind us and that dust has settled, let’s take a step back! Was the COP26 a success? What was decided about food and farming? Where does the EU stand in all this, and what is the EU’s way forward on climate change ? We answer all these questions with our three guests:

• Shane Holland, executive director of Slow Food in the UK
• Chantal Clément, Deputy Director of IPES-Food (the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems)
• Tim Mc Phie, European Commission Spokesperson for Climate Action and Energy

Check out Slow Food’s website to keep up to speed about our work on climate change: https://www.slowfood.com/what-we-do/themes/climatechange/

Do not hesitate to follow @SlowFoodEurope on Twitter, as well as our guests: @TimMcPhieEU, @slowfooduk and @IPESfood

Host: Alice Poiron
Production & editing: Valentina Gritti 
Music: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes

Financed by the European Union. The contents of this podcast are the sole responsibility of the author and the EASME is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

A project by the Slow Food Youth Network

EU Farm to Fork Strategy: Science, Civil Society and the Planet over Corporate Interests.

Slow Food Europe is back with a second episode on the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, which was proposed by the EU Commission last year to accelerate the transition towards sustainable food systems in Europe.

Last month, the EU Parliament voted in favor of this strategy despite repeated lobbying attacks from the agrifood industry. Slow Food warmly welcomed this vote, and took the opportunity to gather three panelists who have worked hard on the Farm to Fork Strategy since the start:

• Nina Holland, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory (@nina_holland)
• Martin Dermine, policy officer at PAN Europe
• Tilly Metz, Member of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance at the European Parliament (@MetzTilly)

In this episode, our guests talk about the EU Farm to Fork Strategy and what has happened since its publication in May 2020. They shed light on the intense lobbying that the agro-chemical industry has been doing to try to weaken the Strategy, and on how you, as European citizens can influence food policy, for example through the recent successful European Citizens Initative “Save bees and farmers”.

For more details on the EU Parliament's vote of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, read our recap article: https://www.slowfood.com/eu-parliament-gives-the-green-light-to-the-farm-to-fork-strategy/

Also, do not hesitate to follow @SlowFoodEurope on Twitter, as well as our guests: @MetzTilly, @corporateeurope and @EuropePAN!

 

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Music: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes
Production: Valentina Gritti 

Financed by the European Union. The contents of this podcast are the sole responsibility of the author and the EASME is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

A project by the Slow Food Youth Network

SFYNers around the globe: Juan Carlos Villegas (Mexico)

Welcome to a new episode of SFYNers around the globe! In this series we are going to meet different activists of our network. We are going to get to know more about who they are, what they do in their daily lives and how they are involved with the Slow Food Youth Network. We have a similar set of questions for all the SFYNers but in additions to those we will see of course where the conversation brings us. The special guest of today is Juan Carlos Villegas Cuevas, from Oaxaca in Mexico. Juan Carlos is an active member of SFYN Mexico and he participated in the digital global SFYN Academy this year. He is the director of Etnofood and knows a lot about local food culture and in particular about Mezcal. 

Link to Etnofood: https://etnofood.wixsite.com/inicio 
Link to the SFYN Academy website: http://www.sfynacademy.com/ 

Podcast host, production and editing: Valentina Gritti
Podcast jingle: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes
Song “Cielito lindo” by Tres Ríos

A project by the Slow Food Youth Network