T

he food movement is out there, encouraged by many people who are trying to improve their diet either for health or lifestyle reasons.

At home, slowfoodbali.com focuses on a specific way of living and eating.

It offers a link to the Slow Food international organization, the body which was established in 1989 in response to fast food and fast living, the loss of people'€™s local food traditions and a general diminishing interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices can impact the world.

The organization'€™s approach to agriculture, food production and gastronomy is based on a concept of food quality defined by three interconnected principles: good, clean and fair.

The idea of '€œgood'€ means enjoying delicious food created with care from healthy plants and animals. The pleasure of good food can also help to build community and celebrate culture and regional diversity.

'€œClean'€ means that food ingredients that are used are grown and harvested with methods that have a positive impact on local ecosystems and promote biodiversity.

Slow Food '€” which uses a snail as its symbol '€” believes that food is a universal right. Food that is fair should be accessible to all, regardless of income, and produced by people who are treated with dignity and justly compensated for their labor.

In the Bali organization, the website provides readers with interesting articles such as on Indonesian coffee and winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) '€” an edible and nutritious plant that is believed can replace imported soybean produce tempeh or tofu.

The website also provides recipes, which so far only consists of two recipes: spicy winged bean salad in Thai style,
as well as pumpkin and pesto cream salad.

Many people have become vegans and vegetarians or embraced raw food or slow food movements.

Basically, according to vrg.org of the Vegetarian Resource Group, vegetarians are defined as those who do not eat meat, fish or poultry.

Meanwhile vegans, in addition to being vegetarian, do not use animal products or by-products, such as eggs, dairy, honey, leather, fur, silk, wool, cosmetics and soap derived from animal products.

The site offers concise information on the way of life, packed with basic knowledge on vegan nutrition, vegan and
vegetarian recipes, common vegan food, other food that vegans eat and dairy substitutes. There is also a vegetarian journal guide, vegan guide to leather alternatives and other useful articles.

In a specific tab, the site also takes notice of teens, family and kids in relation to vegans'€™ and vegetarians'€™ life. It is comprised of articles on feeding vegan kids, pregnancy and vegan diet as well as vegan teen athletes.

The recipes provided include tomatillo-cilantro sauce with black refried beans; gluten-free snack mix (for cold cereal or topping on fruit or soy yoghurt); and, lemon-baked fusilli with tempeh, sun-dried tomatoes and beet greens.

Rawfoodlife.com, on the other hand, mostly focuses on the science in a raw food lifestyle.

The website emphasizes that raw food is not just a fine diet because it is also a good science. Science has proved that cooking not only destroys nutrition and enzymes but chemically changes foods from the substances needed for health into acid-forming toxins, free-radicals and poisons that destroy humans'€™ health.

Rawfoodlife.com describes things that happen when someone eats raw whole foods rather than cooked and processed foods -- complete with numerous references.

The website offers a complete guide to the health movement, providing readers with suggested readings, raw
food links and recipes '€” from apple-pineapple to ginger juice, mock tuna salad and raw mayonnaise '€” as well as numerous articles, including the facts on raw food versus cooked food, science of raw foods, raw foods and cancer and more.