Word: nefco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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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