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Centralization of Our Food System Panel

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Dimock on Large Scale Organics

03 min 44 sec

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Michael Dimock gives some examples of small, local farms like Natural Country Beef with high production standards that grew into national companies.

Despite the trend toward centralization, these companies succeeded in appealing to niche markets that grew towards large populations.
Paul Frankel on the Businesses of Sustainable Food

02 min 58 sec

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Paul Frankel explains how small, local food producers like Cowgirl Creamery who have adapted their business models to achieve more growth.

Frankel believes that these food producers generally maintain higher standards of sustainability than large scale multi-national corporations.
Don Shaffer Backs Local, Slow Growth Food Investment

03 min 05 sec

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Don Shaffer advocates local, committed investments into privately owned food companies.

This type of investment would be less typical of the business model's "rampant short-termism" which Shaffer finds incompatible with food businesses which are "long-term enterprises."
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Michael A. Thompson

Posted: 12.25.08, 07:42 AM

I find their strategy flawed. If they want to make changes in the food system they need to work on increasing the demand for the products and less on the investing. Basic economics tells us that investment follows demand... mostly. =)

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