Detroit groups are coming together to bring healthy grocery options to Detroiters.
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A broad coalition devoted to improving Detroit’s food security is
working with underserved communities and state legislators to bring
fresh food options to several neighborhoods.
The M.O.S.E.S. Supermarket Task Force is a partnership anchored by
M.O.S.E.S. (Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength), a
group of around 60 area congregations, and the United Food and
Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 876. The diverse group hopes to
rally around the opening of several planned grocery outlets throughout
Detroit.
"We believe that quality markets are critical to good health and
neighborhood security," M.O.S.E.S. President Reverend Kevin Turman
says. "It's a moral issue -- and so it’s also a religious one."
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