Get Hooked on Community Supported Fishery (CSF)!
By Andrianna Natsoulas
Campaigns Coordinator, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
You’ve heard about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), where consumer pay for farm shares of produce at the beginning if the season and receive baskets of the harvest as the crops come in. Well the coastal counterpart to the CSA is Cape Ann Fresh Catch (CAFC), the first Boston-area Community Supported Fishery (CSF) which was launched in June 2009 with over 750 shareholders. A CSF is a shore-side community of people collaborating with the local fishing community. Tailored after the Community Supported Agriculture model, a CSF contributes freshly caught local seafood to the local markets while providing fishermen with a better price on less catch. CSF members give the fishing community financial support in advance of the season, and in turn the fishermen provide a weekly share of seafood during the fishing season. A CSF reconnects people to the ocean that sustains them and builds a rewarding relationship between the fishermen and the shareholders. To read more, click here
Dane County Local Food Policy Subcommittee's "Recipe for Success" Report Released
On July 18, 2005 after almost a year of work including a Local Food Summit Conference attended by over a hundred people in Feb. 2005, the Local Food Policy Advisory Subcommittee (LFPAS) to the Dane County Board of Supervisors has released its recommendations. They include establishment of a permanent Food Council for Dane County, which would be the first such body in the state of Wisconsin.
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Corporate Agribusiness Exposes
Welcome to Whole Foods – The “Walmart” of Organic
Whole Foods is the largest retail giant in the natural food sector in the U.S. with 168 stores nationwide (plus in Canada and Britain) and annual gross sales now exceeding $4.6 billion. In fact, Whole Foods has grown twice as fast the leading corporate grocer, Walmart, over the last four years. Started in a humble storefront at the corner of 8th and Rio Grande in Austin, TX back in 1978 by self-described “free market” libertarian and current CEO, John Mackay, Whole Foods grew parasitically throughout the 1990s.read more
Wal-Mart: the Quintessential Suburban Nightmare!
Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer – with 1489 mega-stores, 1397 Super Centers, 532 Sam's Clubs, and 56 neigborhood markets in the U.S alone as of 2003, and close to a tousand more abroad from Argentina to Germany. In fact, Wal-Mart is now the single largest private employer in the U.S. with 1.1 million "associates" and higher earnings than the gross national product (GNP) of 150 countries! In 2003 Wal-mart sold 19% of all groceries in the U.S. and recorded $9 billion in profits. Of the top fifteen richest people in the world, five are Wal-Mart heirs. The Walton family with its $90 billion is ranked among the richest in the world – along with Microsoft’s Bill Gates, and Saudi Royal Prince, Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud. read more...
