Other Avenues Are Possible: Legacy of the People's Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area
Other Avenues Are Possible: Legacy of the People's Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area
Sacharoff, Shanta Nimbark
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m> offers a vivid account of the dramatic rise and fall of the San Francisco People's Food System of the 1970s.

Weaving new interviews, historical research, and the author's personal story as a longstanding co-op member, the book captures the excitement of a growing radical social movement along with the struggles, heartbreaking defeats, and eventual resurgence of today's thriving network of Bay Area cooperatives, the greatest concentration of co-ops anywhere in the country.

Integral to the early natural foods movement, with a radical vision of "Food for People, Not for Profit," the People's Food System challenged agribusiness and supermarkets, and quickly grew into a powerful local network with nationwide influence before flaming out, often in dramatic fashion. Other Avenues Are Possible documents how food co-ops sprouted from grassroots organizations with a growing political awareness of global environmental dilapidation and unequal distribution of healthy foods to proactively serve their local communities. The book explores both the surviving businesses and a new network of support organizations that is currently expanding.

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