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Founded in 1973, the Park Slope Food Co-op is the largest member-owned and operated co-op in the United States with 12,000 members. Unlike many co-ops, this one is for members only. Each member is required to work at the co-op for three hours every four weeks. The strict rules and lefty politics of Park Slope have led the co-ops detractors to compare it with the collective farms of Stalinist Russia but its members says it's well worth the hassle; the produce is fresher and cheaper than at other local stores and collective organizing has its costs.
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This material is excerpted from The Nation Guide to the Nation published by Vintage Books in January, 2009.
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