Slow Food

I hadn't previously heard of Slow Food, apart from moments where friends have eschewed another visit to Taco Bell or the like...

Well, The Slow Food movement seems to be centered on maintaining good quality, diverse food (e.g., not having everyone grow the same genetically modified crops).

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food

The Slow Food movement was created to combat fast food and claims to preserve the cultural cuisine and the associated food plants and seeds, domestic animals, and farming within an ecoregion. It was the first established part of the broader Slow movement.

The Slow Food movement was begun by Carlo Petrini in Italy as a resistance movement to fast food. It has since expanded globally to 100 countries and now has 83,000 members. It humorously describes itself as an "eco-gastronomy faction" within the ecology movement, and some refer to the movement as the "culinary wing" of the anti-globalization movement.
The Slow Food website lists various objectives and aims of the movement, which include:

-Seed banks to preserve native varieties, usually in cooperation with more local movements
-An "ark of taste" for each ecoregion whose foods and flavors are preserved
-Preserving and promoting local and traditional food product know-how
-Organizing small-scale processing, e.g., slaughtering, of short run products
-Organizing celebrations of local cuisine within the region of production, e.g., the Feast of Fields held in some cities in Canada
-Taste Education
-Educating consumers about the hidden risks of fast food
-Educating citizens about the hidden risks of agribusiness and factory farms
-Educating citizens about the risks of monoculture and reliance on too few genomes or varieties
-Various political programs to preserve family farms
-Lobbying for agricultural policy changes to support organic farms
-Lobbying against genetic modification of foodstuffs
-Lobbying against the use of pesticides
-Teaching gardening, especially to students and prisoners
-Moral purchasing of foodstuffs produced by locals using methods that are morally acceptable to the consumer