Food System—Economic Unity / Political Fragmentation - FoundSF

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by John Curl, Part Nine of an excerpt from a longer essay “Food for People, Not for Profit: The Attack on the Bay Area People’s Food System and the Minneapolis Co-op War: Crisis in the Food Revolution of the 1970s” Turnover Issue 20, July-Aug. 1977 The contradiction between the Food System as a federation of small businesses and as a political movement resulted in people and groups having conflicting priorities. Some thought that the core mission of the Food System was to provide good, inexpensive food and to develop and promote collectivity, while others thought that the core mission was to aid progressive and revolutionary struggles going on in the world around them. The stores and support collectives were functioning at a variety of levels of economic success. Of the support collectives, the Warehouse and Red Star were the most viable: (99) “Many false starts were made—an apple orchard and a pasta factory never got off the ground. Left Wing Poultry was a financial failure, and Amazo

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