Movie Festival at The Hutong

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Date: Sunday, August 5th

Where: The Hutong
Time: 7:00pm
Price: 100RMB  (includes a Slow Food Beijing membership and one drink and corn snacks; 50RMB for SFB members)

BOOK NOW! Send an email at:  events@thehutong.com
You are what you eat! If you grew up in the United States, it’s likely that much of your food has been made from processed corn. Join Slow Food Beijing for the first food awareness film night. We’ll be showing KING CORN (2007 Mosaic Films), a documentary about the genetically modified corn industry in the US, where almost every processed food product is derived from corn. The result is a nation of fast farmers producing fast food resulting in obesity, and cheap food that is void of nutrition and fraught with other perils.

Filmmakers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney decide to grow their own acre of GM corn in Iowa, the heart of the corn belt. Follow them as they discover what happens to this America’s most subsidized grain and how it has affected the food supply. Viewers will learn how big food industries have saturated markets and how they affect each of us, even here in China.

We thank the filmmakers for granting Slow Food Beijing and The Hutong permission to show this film. Please contact info@slowfood-beijing.org for more information.

Visit: www.slowfood-beijing.org.

Intro to Slow Food Beijing…

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Our Mission

Globally, Slow Food is an international grassroots membership organization promoting good, clean and fair food for all.

Locally, Slow Food Beijing seeks to cultivate and promote a robust eco-system for the production, supply and consumption of Good, Clean, Fair Food.

Our Roots

Founded in 1989 and with supporters in more than 150 countries, Slow Food’s approach to agriculture, food production and gastronomy is based on a concept of food quality defined by three interconnected principles:

GOOD a fresh and flavorsome seasonal diet that satisfies the senses and is part of our local culture;
CLEAN food production and consumption that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health;
FAIR accessible prices for consumers and fair conditions and pay for small-scale producers.

Our Membership

Members of Slow Food Beijing represent a diverse range of individuals who support the Slow Food philosophy of good, clean, fair food.

From farmers who are embedding these principles into their cultivation practices to chefs who value high-quality food and appreciate food culture to consumers who just love eating the results, Slow Food is a veritable smorgasbord of stakeholders.

Slow Food members enjoy a range of benefits including first rights to access Slow Food Beijing events, access to the global Slow Food community, and a range of other resources.