2 pages, via Online source, Purchasing organic food in today’s world likely means taking a trip to Whole Foods, owned by one of the richest men in all of history, Jeff Bezos. Although it is hard to imagine organic foods as something other than a luxury item targeted towards affluent demographics, the origin story of the organic foods market is vastly different. Written by Winona State University associate professor of sociology Craig B. Upright, Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota dives back into the 1970s to paint a vivid image of the subversive world of organic groceries and food co-ops before the era of Whole Foods.
Loomis, Charles P. (author / Michigan State University) and Beegle, J. Allan (author / Michigan State University)
Format:
Book review
Publication Date:
1957
Published:
USA: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C12299
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection. Hal R. Taylor Collection., 488 p., Summary of the book, with emphasis on Chapter 13, "Library and mass media systems" (pp. 403-432).
Reviewer of a book by Marc Landy, Environmental Impact Statement Glossary, comments on the varied and complex dimensions of meaning related to environmental issues.
Via Eighteenth Century Studies., Review of John Fea's The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America. Reviewer notes Fea's primary claim that the Enlightenment was about self-improvement. "This gives an entirely different focus from those studies of rural American Enlightenment that address the question of modernity through agricultural improvement."