Indy Food
Cooperative plans to open the city's first not-for-profit grocery store in a 70-year-old former appliance store along East
10th Street near Rural. The cooperative, which has 200 Indianapolis households as its members,
plans to renovate the 3,000-square-foot former Lane
TV building into Pogue's Run Grocer. The store, set to open in October, will support local growers while providing local,
fresh and organic food to a neighborhood that does not have a full-line grocery store. Members of the cooperative will receive
discounts and other benefits, but the store also will be open to the public. The rendering here is from the local architecture
firm Haus, and the photo is from Google Maps. Check out more
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I really hope they can pull it off since it is not too far out of my way.
Go vegan and save yourself, the animals and earth!
Hey Dutch, kudos on your commitment to vegainsm. One question for you, what about the babies of vegans?
1- Breast milk does not come from animals but from humans. It is not an animal product.
2- Breast milk is enough to sustain a child for the first year of life.
3- Breast milk is the ideal food for a vegan baby.
4- In fact, all breastfed babies are vegan, and this is even more true if the mother isn't eating animal products either.
5- They are just as healthy as babies who are fed formula made from cow milk.
5- Oh yeah, soy formula is fully nutritious and vegan.
Smackdown over. Dutcheastindie out!
The location is convenient for tens of thousands of east side residents, who will be able to walk, bike, or stop off on their way home from work. It will take some re-programming for many of us: grocery shopping used to be done much more frequently in smaller buys. The advent of mega-stores has encouraged people to drive long distances and stock up every couple of weeks at the Uber-mart.
Berwick Guy, the clientele are urban dwellers who live near the location and know what it is. (The founding members mostly live east between the inner loop and Irvington.) Most folks are enthusiastic about a positive development on East 10th, and have a commitment to making the neighborhood better. The suburban folks already have Trader Joe's and Whole Foods and aren't likely to venture south of 86th/82nd where people and places look too urban.
I haven't heard anything about this on Fox. I have heard comments elsewhere and was just curious as to babies development. I appreciate the enlightenment. What you say makes sense. My question was not intended to be a negative.
CDC Guy:
I merely commented about this because of someone else's negative about the location. I live south suburban and would rather go there than all the way to Trader Joe's if I happen to be in the area. So, this, to me, is a positive development.
If this is successful, branches might be possible (I know, way too soon to be thinking this). The near westside or near southside could use such a coop, as could the heart of downtown. Perhaps an annex at City Market?
Best of luck to the new venture.
(Speaking of which, did anybody see the comment in the Star's Let it Out section over the weekend that stated I would rather be back in Iraq than live on the East side of Indy.
Nice.
I truly am excited about this on many levels! Good folks are trying hard to help the East side, and comments like that will make us only more proud of our accomplishments!
(Dutch: What you say is true, but very limited with regards to actually RAISING a child a vegan. More often than not, many parents are forced to provide their children a more substantive source of protein and iron than veggies and pills can provide, and often must make a more towards meats and poultry for the sake of their children. Many children turn sickly and can become malnourished under vegan diets. But, I'm sure that you'll agree that vegans are better human beings than the rest of us...just like the smug owners of hybrids.
Don't try sugarcoat the facts with breast milk. I don't think you're going to find many 6 year olds who still want to be breastfed....)
Thanks for the comments. I do recall that I read a piece in the NY Times a couple of years ago about a baby that died and its vegan parents were conviceted of murder and cruelty. From what I can recall, the author believed the parents ignorance about how they were doing things was the greatest issue. Its like so many other things in life. Some people can become enlightened, but if they lacked common sense in the first place, they can paint themselves in the corner like these folks apparently did. I have some friends that are vegans and they seem to be practicing a very sensible life style. It's not for everyone, but good for those, like you, that do so.
Berwick - Please go back and re-read the story. The family you mention in the NY Times piece only fed their infant soy milk and apple juice. A non vegan infant would die if it only drank cow's milk and apple juice. So the parents were guilty of neglect, period. It had nothing to do with the child being vegan. All babies need breast milk or formula. Regular or soy milk won't cut it. This rumor has persisted, though.
Mark - How do you explain the actual living children that have been raised vegan? Why aren't they dead? People have figured it out, dude. Check out this resource:
http://www.vegsource.com/parent/growing_vegans.htm
It's my belief that the increased rates of child obesity and early onset diabetes shows that our current American meat and fat-laden diet isn't working too well, so spare me the lecture on how vegan kids turn sickly. What a joke.
Type in famous vegans in Wikipedia and tell me how sickly that group looks.
Not cocky, Mark...just factual.
I live on the NE side, but will stop by here frequently on my way home from work downtown to pick up the essentials. I'm very excited for the group's commitment to the near-eastside, and I will do whatever I can to support them.
I hope you don't mean that somehow good citizens don't live there now?
Or do I misunderstand you?
I believe that good activity drives out bad, and a grocery brings a lot of good activity. As George pointed out, the board went through a lot of deliberation and there was a conscious decision to put the store on East 10th. This is part recognition of and part support for the East 10th St. Civic Association's efforts at improvement.
August 4th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Benjamin,
I hope you don’t mean that somehow “good citizens†don’t live there now?
Or do I misunderstand you?
Have you ever spent time in this area? I work just blocks away from 10th & Rural and it's definitely full of sunshine and the hellos of friendly neighbors. Not saying good people don't exist in the area, but I experience the terrible on a daily basis. This project is a very positive step in a great direction for the area. I will be there to help support it, but there is no denying the area is in desperate need of help.. hopefully this can be a turning point, because as Kevin pointed out this area is the perfect density to redevelop.. East 10th could and should be our High St (Columbus, OH) or South St. (Philly).
the meat idea I can understand a little more (but I'm not going to stop eating meat) but being vegan isn't exactly saving the earth.
If we treat animals well (which a lot of the time we don't) and do it in a green fashion, I see nothing wrong with us drinking milk, eating cheese, etc.
There is nothing wrong with being vegan, but you shouldn't go around like a tv preacher telling everyone else how wrong they are.
And btw, I would say that, rather than meat and fat being the probable cause for childhood obesity, hormones and unnatural additives are causing the current problems, not to mention poor eating habits by parents being passed on to kids. Man has been eating meat and drinking milk for millenia...and just now they're getting fat from it? Please...
Fortunately, organic and natural foods do not contain these lovely hormones and food additives. Yet (and unfortunately), this humble poster find organic food to be a bit too pricey for his purse at the current time...maybe this food co-op will help me cure that.
Congratulations on your project's traction! I am an east sider that refuses to commute to another part of the city to buy my soy milk. I know several developers that have been salivating over the properties along this corridor and I think your move could push them towards investing in this, what was it called in an earlier post, terrible location? And while I think your store could really benefit the community, I think it could also benefit my health! I have been aggressively trying to better my diet and eat less processed foods. Shopping at an under cared for Kroger is doing me no favors not to mention lining the pockets of people who don't really care about what I am buying and putting in my body. I don't tend to post responses on these blogs for obvious reasons (dead vegan babies on a food co-op blog? Really?) However, I wanted to say thank you and I can't wait to start supporting your venture. Will you have a deli similar to Bloomingfoods? That was my favorite place to go for lunch! BBQ Seitan *drool*! Best of luck from your friend in Bosart Brown!