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Podcast: Real Organic Podcast
Episode: Alan Lewis: Corruption and Anticompetitiveness in Dairy
Description: #068: Policy expert and organic advocate Alan Lewis of Natural Grocers is back, this timeΒ to discuss the ways that Big Dairy, including conventional co-ops and processors, is able to control the pricing and availability of organic dairy products in stores. Alan Lewis is the VP of Government Affairs, Stakeholder Relations, and Organic Compliance at Natural Grocers. His 2019 talk at the first annual Real Organic Symposium blew a lot of minds, as he described the massive consolidation in the natural foods industry, which has been boiled down to two distributors. In addition to his roles with IFOAM North A...