<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Lawrence A. Parker</span><img alt=""><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Managing Director</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Akron Cooperative</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">234-525-0543</span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.akroncooperative.com/">http://www.akroncooperative.com/</a></span><br><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.</span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><span><a target="_blank" href="http://food.change.org/blog/view/food_safer_at_mcdonalds_than_in_schools">http://food.change.org/blog/view/food_safer_at_mcdonalds_than_in_schools</a></span></span><br><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>In particular, look at "Organic Food's Class Problem". As organic food growers start to look more and more like agri-businesses, they tend to lose their "wholesomeness".<br><br>"A 2006 study by the California Institute for Rural Studies found that
only 36 percent of organic farms in California gave their workers
health insurance, a figure shamefully outstripped by conventional
farms' 46 percent."<br><br>Urban Farming is still the way to go for people in the cities.<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 191, 96); font-weight: bold;" size="1"></font><font size="1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 191, 96); font-weight: bold;"></span></font><br>
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