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Show food co-op forms (i k The People's Co-operative of Salt Lake City is establishing a University branch. This is a food co-op, a food-buying club which is being established to make students' stu-dents' grocery money go farther. Food is purchased by the co-op at wholesale prices. Name brand food can be purchased through the co-op for less than it would cost at a normal store. Since the members of the co-op determine which foods they want to buy, it is possible to get better quality foods and hard-to-get health foods and macrobiotic nutrition. nu-trition. The members of the co-op create the demand, that is, which foods they wish to have placed on their weekly price list. Therefore, the buyers could be sure to get only those foods that hadn't been sprayed with insecticides or in other ways harmfully treated. Members Help Each member of the co-op has the responsibility to work in some way to keep the club going. This could mean taking orders, taking part in food distribution, serving for some time as treasurer or accountant for the club or in some other way contributing time and talent to the organization. Co-ops can wield tej tive buying power to j food producers and pw-' their techniques and r j policy-making conceiri;-' For example, the cM refuse to buy any fe';i than those packed by i union while that -: negotiating with itself better working conditios-j form. . I The people, the nw, termine how the co-op?, , Join at EcologyCeoif j To join the Univem go to the Ecology & 161, any time Monday and place your time, you will be a $1.50 life-time me to cover the cost of t forms, price lists, ;, pay for the food whe ; Then on Friday on Saturday from ' p.m.youpickupyo' the Campus ChnsW, University St. j The co-op does stamps and, ifyJ-jJ may wait unt y P , order to turn them- J |