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Title	Issue	Date
Co-op Award Winners Announced at CCMA 2016 BY Dave Gutknecht Outstanding food co-ops and co-op leaders were awarded recognition at the June 2016 CCMA (Consumer Cooperative Management Association) conference in Amherst, Mass.	Endcap Articles	June 28, 2016
Organic Integrity Lawsuit Goes Forward BY Dave Gutknecht Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture won a temporary victory on September 8 when a federal judge denied a USDA request to dismiss their case.	Endcap Articles	September 12, 2016
Why Big Food is Winning BY Dave Gutknecht Why has the food movement accomplished so little against Big Food in various campaigns to regulate and restrict the damage to the health of humans, animals, soil, and water by a system dominated by	Endcap Articles	October 5, 2016
New Book Explores Cooperative Society BY Dave Gutknecht In The Cooperative Society: The Next Stage of Human History, authors E.G. Nadeau and his son Luc Nadeau suggest that conditions are ripe for a transformation to a more cooperative world.	Endcap Articles	October 26, 2016
Global Cooperative Summit in Quebec BY Dave Gutknecht Nearly 3,000 cooperators from more than 100 countries met in Quebec on October 11-13 at a third global cooperative Summit.	Endcap Articles	October 26, 2016
TPP Treaty Defeated by Popular Opposition BY Dave Gutknecht Among the best results of the recent election is the abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty, which was an attempt to extend international corporate power and undermine democratic	Endcap Articles	November 18, 2016
Direct Public Offering: Co-op Capital Q & A BY Dave Gutknecht One relatively untried method for capitalizing co-ops, a Direct Public Offering, is discussed in a new posting by Food Co-op Initiative (FCI), which is assisting startups across the country. An in	Endcap Articles	November 18, 2016
Sugar Beet: Startup Co-op of 2018 BY Dave Gutknecht Sugar Beet Co-op in Oak Park, Illinois, was presented the Startup of the Year award from Food Co-op Initiative (FCI) on June 2,	Endcap Articles	June 14, 2018
Financing the New Economy BY An excellent report and overview appeared in a recent issue of Dollars and Sense and may be found on its website: htt	Endcap Articles	December 20, 2013
Core Values: Three pillars of a food revolution BY Dave Gutknecht An noteworthy article by Anna Lappe, Three Pillars of a Food Revolution appeared recently in Yes! magazine.	Endcap Articles	September 5, 2010
Fukushima Radiation Reaches U.S. Food Supply BY Dave Gutknecht The devastating effects of the core fuel meltdown in at least three nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima site are not limited to the immediate region – where many will suffer from its radiation, and	Endcap Articles	June 2, 2011
E. Coli: The problem is industrial livestock BY Dave Gutknecht Don’t blame the sprouts. The E. coli strain causing death and illness in Germany, and other strains, originate in livestock and typically are spread through improper handling of manure.	Endcap Articles	June 8, 2011
Small Farms Create More Jobs BY Dave Gutknecht Gene Logsdon is a wise and delightful writer on food and farming.	Endcap Articles	September 14, 2011
Social Justice and New Food Co-ops BY Dave Gutknecht Jobs and access to food are urgent needs in many communities.	Endcap Articles	August 18, 2011
Meat and Dairy Illustrate Resource Limits: EWG Report BY Dave Gutknecht Even as co-ops and other local food providers promote meat and dairy from pastured livestock, these advocates are confronted with drawbacks to a diet centered on those resource-intensive foods.	Endcap Articles	July 19, 2011
Just Label It – We Have a Right to Know BY Dave Gutknecht The campaign to require labeling of foods produced with genetic engineering is more powerful than ever.	Endcap Articles	October 10, 2011
New Study: A Manual for Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives BY Dave Gutknecht Food co-ops typically have hundreds or thousands of consumer owners.	Endcap Articles	April 25, 2011
Fresh Foods, Fresh Questions BY Dave Gutknecht Growth in fresh food sales – and “fresh packaged” – is at the heart of recent comments from the Hartman Group, a leading analyst of the natural/organic grocery industry whose research has influenced m	Endcap Articles	March 25, 2012
An Italian View of "Co-op: Made in USA" BY Dave Gutknecht A new publication presents a dossier on U.S. worker-owned and consumer co-ops in the U.S.	Endcap Articles	March 8, 2012
America Beyond Capitalism BY In a recent article in "Dollars and Sense," Gar Alperovitz presents cooperative enterprise, especially worker-owned co-ops, along with other methods of democratizing capital -- an essential direction	Endcap Articles	January 9, 2012