Introduction
Global food insecurity is a reflection of the daunting challenges that people continue to face due to the abandonment of their culture. The global food initiative through different food programs, research fronts, and tool kits on best food practices is at the forefront of promoting sustainable food values that deal with different challenges. The initiative’s main role is to promote slow food values while eliminating the dominant fast-food values.
Fast-food Values
Uniformity is a fast-food value that causes people to lose their individuality because of the pressure to conform. This value expects everything to be the same everywhere, resulting in a lack of uniqueness (Waters & McNamara). Speed is another fast-food value that causes people to be easily distracted. People with this value lose patience and forget that things take time. Availability is a fast-food value that spoils people because they easily abandon their culture and local ideas. Those who believe in this value think that seasons do not matter. Deception is a value characterized by things happening away from the public sphere. The value does not allow access to determine what happens. Cheapness hinders people from understanding the real cost. It embraces subsidies, credits, and discounts. More is better is a value that does not allow room for discernment. It believes that many choices are always the best.
Slow-food Values
Respect is a slow-fast food value that embraces customs. The value is powerful in the world of food. Integrity is critical in food sustainability. It is a slow food value that promotes meaningful lives (Waters & McNamara). Friendship is another value that is connected to attaining richer lives. The value is true-life affirming. Awareness is a fundamental value in the current fast-food world. It emphasizes alertness towards connectedness to nature. Beauty is a powerful slow food value. It results in more fulfillment and enjoyment. Interconnectedness focuses on promoting expression and interactions. It is intrinsic, natural, and alien to human beings.
Conclusion
The slow-food values promote cultural practices and global food sustainability, unlike the fast-food values, which have a dark side. The latter values are dominating the world, embracing a fast-food culture where deception, and aggression, among other unsustainable values, are widely adopted. However, there is hope given the Global Food Initiative’s effort to ensure that slow food values replace fast food values through the use of data and food research fronts.
Work Cited
“EE 101: Teaching Slow Food Values in a Fast Food World – Alice Waters and Craig McNamara” YouTube, uploaded by Edible schoolyard Project, 2015, Web.