This is not a book worth reading, especially in 2019. The translation is very difficult to follow, most chapters read like a list of committees and organizations that were constantly being formed, reformed, merged, etc. If you must read it, at least skip ahead to chapter 4 or later, so that you skip a lot of the preamble and actually reach a point where they were taking action and making some sort of change. The end of the book features stories and information about some of the "rare" foods that Slow Food is trying to protect, and the book would have been much better served to just focus on that. Still, if that's what you're interested in, just read Dan Barber's Third Plate for a better written version of that. Seriously don't bother with this.