Food conspiracy
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Food conspiracy is a term that described various organizing efforts in the early 1970s among neighbors who pooled resources to purchase food directly from farmers and small distributors.[1] In the San Francisco Bay Area, for instance, a collective of like-minded individuals would establish a phone list, create a list of available goods, members would volunteer for tasks such as taking phone orders and tallying the list on Friday evening, shopping at the farmers market early Saturday morning and hosting the pick up spot in a basement or garage locally. There was also a quarterly dry goods distribution. The produce was supplemented by eggs and dairy products from small distributors.
Some food conspiracies went on to become food cooperatives and bulk and natural foods distributors.
The term "food conspiracy" has since been copyrighted by the Food Conspiracy[citation needed], a Tucson, Arizona food co-op which was started in 1970 as a once-a-week members-only distribution site like most other food cooperatives across the country, and later became a full-service food market open to the public and run on membership cooperative principles. Food Conspiracy Co-op re-organized as a consumer food cooperative and adheres to the seven internationally recognized cooperative principles.
[edit] References
- ^ Rosen, Laurel; McGrane, Sally. The Revolution Will Not Be Catered: How Bay Area food collectives of the `60s set the stage for today's sophisticated tastes. San Francisco Chronicle. 8 March 2000.
[edit] Further reading
- Food Conspiracy Cookbook SF: 101 Productions, 1974.
- San Francisco Chronicle, March 8, 2000. Food Section
