[PEN-L:30204] New to list, what's it about?

[Lisa Stolarski <lisa.stolarski@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Pen-L list:

I signed up to this list because I am interested in alternative economy, is
that what you guys mainly talk about?  A few day I have been reading, and
the topics seem to vary.  I am down with collectives, cooperatives and local
currency, etc.  I generally feel that corporate capitalism can be neither
reformed nor taken by force and that our only hope is to build an economic
culture that ignores it until it goes away. I admit, this could take
hundreds of years, but so did the demise of feudalism.

Anybody on this list hear about how the Midwest's Blooming Prairie wholesale
food distribution cooperative is about to sell out to United Natural Foods?
This is quite distressing considering that  BP touches about 30% of the
cooperative market.  I have heard mumbling about dirty tricks by Whole Foods
but nothing that can be substantiated.  Anybody know the history of the
relationship between United Natural Foods Inc. and Whole Foods?  Someone
from Whole Foods, incidentally sits on the board of BP.

Lisa, Pittsburgh