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Slow Food Terra Madre Salon Del Gusto - Italy
22 - 26 September 2016, Turin, Italy
This incredible event is part of our work to promote good, clean and fair food. Terra Madre is an international conference to protect biodiversity, heritage seeds, ethnic recipes, indigenous plants – any foods that are disappearing - and to discourage corporate ownership of agriculture, fast foods, GMOs (genetically modified crops) and ecocide. Slow Food South Africa had three speakers who addressed: organic, free range meat, the UN-backed “10,000 Gardens in Africa” project (which supports small scale farmers), and the dangers of GMOs. Superb statistics: 3,000 delegates (housed by families in small surrounding villages), 130 countries, 1,300 exhibition stalls, 7,000 protesters who marched through the streets of Turin and - get this - 1,000,000 (one million!) visitors to the exhibition.
