Craig B. Upright: Grocery activism: the radical history of food cooperatives in Minnesota

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Chaney, Joshua K. (author)
    Format:
    Book review
    Publication Date:
    2021-01-13
    URL:
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-020-10189-4
    Published:
    USA: Springer
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12055
    Journal Title:
    Agriculture and Human Values
    Subject Term:
    buyers, buying behavior, consumers, food, market analysis, organic farming, social factors, socio-economic aspects, organic, and markets buying behavior
    Notes:
    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.

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