Food Co-ops in AmericaIn recent years, American shoppers have become more conscious of their food choices and have increasingly turned to CSAs, farmers' markets, organic foods in supermarkets, and to joining and forming new food co ops. In fact, food co ops have been a viable food source, as well as a means of collective and democratic ownership, for nearly 180 years. In Food Co ops in America, Anne Meis Knupfer examines the economic and democratic ideals of food