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75% of European food product diversity has been lost since 1900
93% of American food product diversity has been lost in the same time period
33% of livestock varieties have disappeared or are near disappearing
30,000 vegetable varieties have become extinct in the last century, and
one more is lost every six hours
The mission of the Slow Food Foundation for
Biodiversity is to organize and fund projects that defend our world’s
heritage of agricultural biodiversity and gastronomic traditions.
We envision a new agricultural system
that respects local cultural identities, the earth’s resources, sustainable
animal husbandry, and the health of individual consumers.
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