Slow Movement Moves The "Slow Food" movement was begun as a protest to the building of a McDonald's restaurant in Spain. It was followed by the "Slow Money" movement, in opposition to high finance and big business. And now there is the holistic approach called "Slow Living," which celebrates the small and local principle each year at a Summit in Brattleboro, Vermont. Brattleboro is of course a certified "Fairtrade Town." Lacking any sense of irony, the Summit celebrated the fact that attendees traveled from hundreds of miles away to learn how to "form better business connections within their communities." Sponsors of the Summit included Crop Organic Vodka and Farmers Organic Gin, whose products' main ingredient may harm or kill tens of t...

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