The Slow Food Movement will improve the Condition of the Environment

The Slow Food Movement will improve the Condition of the Environment
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The Slow Food Movement will improve the Condition of the Environment
The slow food movement has been popularised due to the positive effects that it has on the environment. The movement supports the consumption of locally manufactured food instead of imported foods, which ultimately cuts the use of fossil fuel in the transportation of food. At the same time, the movement provides a way to deal with a large corporation that has a monopoly in the food market. It is an excellent way of promoting awareness and responsibility to people and whole communities to consider improving their health and environment. The movement is mostly supported because it provides an organic alternative to the inorganic foods available in food markets. This paper will outline how the slow food movement improves the environment and explore any adverse effects related to the movement.
Slow food movement ensures the promotion of local and regional food production. Purchasing foods that are grown locally and consuming livestock from regional farmers helps local businesses and the environment. Importing food from abroad may also have positive effects on the environment, but it is better to improve the environment at the local level. According to Tencati and Zsolnai (2012), it is easy for people who consume slow foods to notice improvements in their local environment. This can bring the satisfaction of consuming local foods and improve the environment. Also, importing foods requires logistical operations that produce many fossil calories (Tencati & Zsolnai, 2012). Limiting imports of foods can reduce the effects of using fossil fuels to transport food over long distances. Consuming locally grown food will allow more people to find organic food for consumption as the movement grows and support the preservation of the environment in the process.
The slow food movement has the potential to replace factory farms and improve the condition of the environment. A factory farm is an industrialized farm that facilitates the rearing of animals in closed spaces with the purpose of reducing costs of raising livestock and maximize production (Tencati & Zsolnai, 2012). Such farms rely on precious non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels to run operations. The use of such resources may provide companies and owners with a cheaper alternative of production and result in monopoly by large corporations. Such monopoly allows such large companies to exploit the health of the livestock, workers and the environment to make profits, leading to many adver...