Growing community through a food co-op: Michelle Lopez-Dohrn at TEDxOjai

Michelle Lopez-Dohrn speaks about creating a food co-op to help promote progressive change in food, community, economy, environment and as a model for human cooperation.
What is a Co-op?
"A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise."
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[@jamesholderegger38]

Some of the Co-Ops that I have visited seemed to cater to more affluent, better-educated, people concerned about their health, organic only, to sum it up people who shop also at Whole Food or as some like to call it Whole paycheck. I find that the prices end up being high and out of reach of lower-income people. I would like to see more focus on families living day to day and maybe on food stamps. Having organic, untested on animals, no gluten, grown from special seeds etc... is a luxury that is typically for the affluent grown-up hippie generation.

[@laurenlamar5464]

Beautiful.

[@jc6226]

good talk

[@Yeezus1468]

Almost no comments!!

[@fredricful]

Vorfor skal china kjøpe opp alt stål? Og såda sitte på monopol innen stålindustri en?

[@fredricful]

Da blir det jo mindre jobber til mensker i det lannet produktet kommer fra?

[@fredricful]

Du vist bedrifter i Norge og andre land lager 1 anent land sine produkter på lisens?

[@fredricful]

Va ser da med det landet somm faktiskt komm opp med ta foreksempel en øl vorfor skall Norge lage øl på lisens fra andre land?

[@zw7719]

So she eats chicken?! I thought she cared about animals, people's health and the environment......

[@whcoopsupporter3280]

Some people that care eat chicken. Some of those people are very effective also.

[@MattB415]

@@whcoopsupporter3280 Cognitive dissonance at its finest....

[@jc6226]

not all meat is incompatible with health and the environment.

[@piku5637]

@@whcoopsupporter3280 if they really cared about animals they wouldn’t be eating them.