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...Eisenberg sleepily parts the bead curtains and walks out onto Sacramento Street with Adrienne N. Giebel '00 and Mike W. Weller '01. They lift armfuls of organic yogurt from a leaf-painted Nefco truck. This yogurt is for the community of about 35 Harvard students who live outside of the bricks and gates in two wooden houses on Sacramento Street and Mass. Ave. They live without Dorm Crew and without swipe cards, in an isolated and self-sufficient community. Alex C. A. Kaufman '02 says, "if you do the most difficult chores, you'll end up working 4 hours...
...profit food cooperatives are increasingly endangered by the marketing of "natural" foods by large corporations, two representatives of the New England Food Cooperatives Organization NEFCO) said yesterday...
Speaking before a small crowd at a forum on the economics of hunger, Jon Rosenthal, a NEFCO spokesman, said the group is one linking a "world-wide system of producers' and consumers' co-ops that supplies food for people rather than for profit...
...NEFCO representative Rink Dickinson said his organization "has been able to make links with small local farmers," providing better produce more cheaply. But because large corporations own all stages of production, they can "sell food at a loss to drive out the competition," Rosenthal said. Food co-ops "must compete with the corporations while maintaining a humane food system," Rosenthal said...
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