Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Stephan: Food is no longer about nourishment, with a goal of creating healthy people. It is a commodities market in which profit is the priority, and it is controlled by a smaller and smaller circle of corporations. Increasingly the only way to make sure you and your family are getting healthy food is to grow it yourself.
There are a number of organizations you might consider supporting listed at the end of this report.
Just outside of the small town of Maumelle, Arkansas sits your run-of-the-mill American strip mall. And as in so many other box store hubs, a Walmart dominates the landscape.
But something is a shade different about this one; its big, looming letters are not the standard blue. These letters, in a new, green hue, spell out ‘Walmart Neighborhood Market.
