Balance of Food

Now that slow food is becoming part of the food conscience, I'm still not sure where I stand. This is one of many articles touting the praises of slow food. I do think locally grown food tastes better since it's picked at its ripest point. But the obsession with which slow food fans treat food isn't terribly realistic for the modern world. If we hold it up as an ideal, great. If we try to pressure the working mother of 3 small children that processed foods are evil, it won't work. Lead by example; speak positively of the virtues, and more converts will come around. Slow food isn't a bad philosophy, but it won't work as a religion.