Slow food is not only a food culture, but also a healthy lifestyle and philosophy of life.

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Benjamin Barber optimistically predicted that the future would be a busy landscape, with rapid economic and technological advances, economic forces that demanded integration, and fast-paced music-MTV, Macintosh computers, McDonald's-that mesmerized people everywhere, forcing the country into homogeneous global theme parks.

However, a recent U.S. News & World Report article titled "Goodbye Hamburger" said that for years, convenience and cheap slogans have been the winning formula for fast-food chains. But now, as the public grows weary of their old ways, the fast-food business is as bad as their food.

Behind the fast-food crisis lies a growing acceptance of slow food, as well as burger weariness, obesity fears, fears of mad cow disease, foot-and-mouth disease, bird flu and genetically modified foods.

The New Slow Food Era

In order to awaken people's numb taste by fast food, Italian gourmet Carlo Petrini initiated the establishment of an international slow food association as early as 1986. They exaggerated the letter "O" in slow food into a snail shape and hoped that people would insist on enjoying food at the speed of snails. They believed that the taste of food could only be fully reflected after careful chewing. It is an inalienable right of human beings to enjoy happiness by tasting delicious food.

In December 1989, more than 500 representatives of Slow Food members from 20 countries gathered in Paris to adopt the Slow Food Manifesto, which argued that the fast pace of urban life was distorting our lives and environment in the name of productivity. We need to start by eating slowly and resisting the fast pace of life.

Not only do slow-footers see McDonald's hamburgers as "junk food," but they also have little sympathy for the wildly expanding Starbucks coffee, which "is nothing more than something in Styrofoam."