NYAB Event - "Over Spilt Milk: The Fight for Fair Price and Fair Profit in Depression Era New York" Exhibition

"Over Spilt Milk: The Fight for Fair Price and Fair Profit in Depression Era New York" Exhibition

The City Reliquary

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The show will feature documents and artifacts from the 1930s, when immigrant Meyer Parodneck and a handful of anti-poverty activists founded the Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative to ensure farmers received a fair price, and consumers paid a fair price, for milk. The Co-op played a pivotal role opening the market controlled by milk distribution giants. With their own processing plants and distribution stations, the Consumer-Farmer Co-op sold milk to consumers at the lowest possible price, and paid farmers the highest possible return, for nearly fifty years. Overcoming a mountain of obstacles, this organization made a difference to hundreds of struggling farmers and to the children of low-income New Yorkers.

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