The videos keep coming! Here is more from Slow Food Nation. You can watch other slow food leaders chatting with TakePart here and here.

Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director of the Center For Food Safety

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As promised, here are more videos from 3 more slow food leaders:

Anna Lappé

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During our time at Slow Food Nation, we caught up with great leaders and changemakers of the slow food movement. Here are excerpts from some of our interviews. More on the way! Stay tuned!

Eric Schlosser:

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If you’ve been reading our coverage of Slow Food Nation, it is clear I was having the time of my life. I will never buy, taste and cook the same way again. And I was so inspired that I contemplated leaving the city to work on an orchard in Maine (it was a fleeting thought, but none the less…)

After returning from San Francisco, I took my new found enthusiasm and my re-usable shopping bags to Whole Foods for some groceries. And let me tell you, every time I reached for the local and organic option on the shelf, I heard a ka-ching! ring in my head.

For everything Slow Food and its leaders have done to bring its mantra of “good, clean and fair” food to the public, I can’t help but question about how absurd this must sound to the average American family.

Let’s examine the food from this weekend: the Victory Garden in in their heart of the Civic Center housed gorgeous edible garden and a farmers market of sorts for the entire weekend. Free samples were enjoyed by all but when it came to purchasing food, I paid $6 for 2 peaches. Now I’m extremely fortunate that i can spend  $6 but for some people, $6 can buy a fast food dinner for 3 or 4 people.

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and other awesome photos from Slow Food Nation!

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Hungry for Change

Here are healthy eating tips from Slow Food Nation attendees:

From Diane Hatz of Sustainable Table

Alex Whitmore from Taza Chocolates

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I just came back from Slow Food Nation in San Francisco. It was a delicious, inspiring, invigorating weekend. Anyone who has read the likes of Marion Nestle, Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser and Alice Waters (to name a few) know that food politics is complicated. From organics and Monsanto to climate change and oil, and from GMOs and the Farm Bill to animal rights and human rights. Vandana Shiva, my hero and a true force of nature, eloquently said “Everything is food, everything is someone else’s food.”

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Left to right: Dawn Brighid and Diane Hatz of Sustainable Table, Kerry Trueman of Eating Liberally, Me, Destin Joy Layne of the Eat Well Guide and Participant’s own Sarah Newman
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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

TakePart Gang:

Chasing the DNC Flame by Fonda Berosini

TakePart at Slow Food Nation by Wendy Cohen

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Nicole Hughes:

State Fair Having Trouble Keeping It Green

TOMS Wrap Boot: Shoe Addicts Saving Lives

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Andy Kondrat:

Mexican Gov Spends $16M to Save Endangered Porpoise

Wilco Offers Section on Website for Carpooling to Shows

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Jon Popham:

Portland Gym Utilizes Human Energy

Angkor Wat Threatened by Tourism Boom

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Gina Telaroli:

10 Powerful Women Using Their Power for Good

10 A+ Worthy Movie and TV Teachers

Over 40,000 people will descend on San Francisco this labor day weekend for an unprecedented celebration of sustainable, just and delicious food in America.   TakePart will be covering the conference and speaking with food enthusiasts, chefs, filmmakers and change makers about the biggest issues facing food policy and how we make a difference.

Hungry for Change? Read our exclusive coverage.