Acting on the ecological premise that everything’s connected to everything else, the early organic movement sought to establish not just an alternative mode of production (the chemical-free farms), but an alternative system of distribution (the anticapitalist food co-ops), and even an alternative mode of consumption (the “countercuisine”).
Enlightening! I've often wondered about why organic markets were so frequently organized as co-ops -- turns out it's a moralistic political values thing.
