The theme of Slow Food Nation is Come to the Table. But some complain they're priced out of eating at the proverbial local, sustainable, organic food table.

Lucas Benitez, left, of Coalition of Immokalee Workers, discusses slave labor on farms.

Victory Gardens at San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza.

Climate Change And Food on the Plate at Slow Food Nation - Some believe that we are talking a lot about climate change affecting polar ice caps and penguins, and not enough about how it could affect our food supply. Here at Slow Food Nation, people are considering how policymakers and the rest of us can affect climate change through how and what we eat. Projections for the food supply are dire due to climate change. Scientists estimate that developing countries could lose 330 million acres of prime farm land in the next 50 years. Here in the U.S., unprecedented storms have eroded prime Midwest soil. That could reduce the food supply for future generations. The Allegheny Front's Jennifer Szweda Jordan has more.

A Texas family with what they eat in a week. Copyright Peter Menzel.

Hungry Planet: What The World Eats - One of the events at Slow Food Nation is what photographers Faith D'Alusio and Peter Menzel call a "culinary atlas of the planet at a time of extraordinary change." They traveled to 24 countries and visited 30 families to document exactly what the families ate. Each family posed around a week's worth of food. The photos are on exhibit here at the World Affairs Council. Many are also in a book called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The Allegheny Front spoke with D'Alusio about their work.

Growing Food, Not Lawns - Many environmentalists knock the suburbs. They don't like how dependent suburbs are on cars. They don't like the sprawl, the large houses and huge lawns. They think it's a waste of land. Ashley Gross reports... one woman is on a campaign to see some of those expansive lawns turned into something a little more productive.

Music celebrating farming from around the world was part of Slow Food Nation. RSK Arts and Drums performed music that suggested if you don't farm in Nigeria, you don't eat.

The Allegheny Front for the Week of September 3, 2008: - Special Coverage of Slow Food Nation in San Francisco including:
--Slow Food Nation Director Talks About Group's Roots
--Wartime Gardens Revived by Grassroots Groups
--Politics on the Plate
--Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
--Climate Change and Food
--Plus, Music From Around the World Celebrates Agriculture