TY - JOUR AU - Halliday, Leah PY - 2020/08/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Equity, Environmentalism, and Conscious Consumerism: A Review of Grocery Activism JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 9 IS - 4 SE - Review DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2020.094.024 UR - https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/852 SP - 335–337 AB - <p><em>First paragraph:</em></p><p>Two crises pervading the current consciousness of society—the COVID-19 health crisis and the ongoing crisis of police brutality against Black Americans as evident in the recent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis—make Craig B. Upright’s <em>Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota </em>particularly timely and relevant, though neither is the direct topic of the book. Upright outlines how grocery co-ops were able to find, sustain, and promote a niche in the market through a symbiotic relationship with the natural and organic foods movement. Readers encounter a variety of voices from Minnesota’s rich history of food co-ops, and while some voices are notably missing, the book provides a foothold into exploring the broad environmental, social, and eco­nomic implications of the aphorism Upright notes in the text: “Food is power." . . .</p> ER -