The trend of the Slow Food movement has been around since the 1970s, but has recently been brought to the forefront of major global issues as a cause and remedy to environmental challenges, local economic circumstances and the complexities with social norms. The Slow Food movement can be considered a countertrend to fast food. It was created in response to the rise of fast food culture, the decrease in people caring about where their food comes from, and the decrease in local food traditions. After careful examination of these factors, a prediction is made of future trends of the Slow Food Movement and how the concept of the Slow Movement will evolve to become part of everyday life. The Oxford American Dictionary defines trends as “a general tendency or inclination , the general direction in which something tends to move” (1999). A trend analysis is defined as an examination of a trend to identify its nature, causes, rate of development, and potential impacts (Cornish, 2001, p.78). Trends sometimes arise as a response to other trends. The same deduction can be made regarding food trends. For example, when the Atkins diet was popular, retailers responded with low-carb food options. In 2006, Burger King offered lettuce-wrapped bunless burgers to appeal to dieters embracing a low- or no-carb lifestyle. Other fast food restaurants including Arbys, Hardees, Carl's Junior and Subway have followed suit with bunless options. Although the trend of no-carb or low-carb diets has waned, low-carb options continue to be available upon request. Trend illustrates the effects that trends have on each other. The Slow Food movement has similar roots. The Slow Food movement may be... center of paper... Austria's parade towards low-carb menus. . Knight Ridder Tribune Business News 1(1), retrieved June 10, 2011 from ProQuest Newsstand. (Document ID: 524271311).Schneider, S. (2008). Good, clean, fair: the rhetoric of the Slow Food movement. College English, 70 (4), pp. 384-402.Slow Food International. 1989. Slow Food Manifesto Retrieved from http://www.slowfood.com/international/2/our-philosophy"Trend n. & v." The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English. Oxford University Press, 1999. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. August 2011United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. 2008. Fertilizer use and prices in the United States. Dataset. Available at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FertilizerUse/ (accessed June 11 2011).