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This is a Community driven movement!!! That’s why it’s so successful. It’s not waiting for a politician or a party to make it happen. $18B to $1.4T in 14 years…. Remember that number…. And it’s just beginning!

Costco and Target spending all of their resources on creating new aisles and markets for emerging products… Farmers Markets by the 10,000s (compared to only 1,000 in 2010) None of this is top down, government work, or subsidies for small batch sustainable food… this is….

We see community gardens sprouting up in ghettos and underserved communities… funded by civilians, not the government… We see more emerging food products in school lunch programs and student programs… Young people spending on healthy lunches over fast food… Costco…..

The movement keeps pushing for change… more consumers demanding more change…. Consumers spending more of their dollars on clean products for their kids and families Consumers demanding change, bankrupting big food and big ag…

Subsidies for big corporations is going up… like at the Farm Bill each year to see how farms over a certain acreage (think Dole Pineapple, Driscoll Strawberry, Smith Pork, Purdue Chicken) get subsidies (to make up for these losses). While small farms and startups dont get $1…

In 2015-16 grocery stores like Publix , ShopRite, Krogers, Trader Joes, Costco, BJs… 2016!!!!!! Decided to acquire companies in the sustainable food space and give them shelf space in their grocery stores for the first time Consumers buying online from competitors was costing..

In 2016…. consumers in Vermont voted to label NonGMO on food products sold in VT, which forced General Mills and Kellogg’s to add NonGMO labeling on cereal and snack boxes our kids eat.

This industry is changing the world we live in compared to the world I remember when we started in 2010 Let’s be very honest! It is the citizens of this country and the citizens of countries around the world that have changed the food industry we live in:

Instead of pretending like some magic politicians is going to make America Healthy Again… let’s face the truth: This industry has gone from $18B —> $1.4T+ in 15 years We have bankrupted grocery companies, distributors, multinational companies and food brands…

There are over 65,000 emerging food & beverage, lifestyle brands, clothing, health & wellness, personal hygien brands There are thousands of brands scaling sustainable supply chains and co-packing facilities for other brands to use sustainable ingredients in their products…

The motto of this movement: as President JFK put it so eloquently in 1961… ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.

By 2016, $1B acquisitions, nearly $1T industry, 34,000 brands In 2024, 54,000 brands, nearly $1.4T industry, over 2,000 hedge fund investors 2025, Government has done nothing about regulating pesticides and chemical “fertilizer”, or antibiotics / genetic mutations in food….

This movement originated from ordinary individuals, on the bottom in 2009, millions of Americans by 2024, not by by organizations, governments, or top-level entities 🤦‍♂️ Stats: Since 2010, this industry was worth $18B, 800 brands By 2016, $1B acquisitions, nearly $1T industry

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