"While his work hits the current social landscape at just a time and in just a place that may draw readers’ attention to the voices that are omitted, the text is rich in detail and insight and may serve as a springboard into further research and discussion."Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
"In an era defined by middle-class food obsessions, there is much to appreciate about this focused and thoughtful book."Minnesota History
"A valuable resource for readers interested in the origins of today’s co-op stores and in the connections of organic food advocacy with other progressive political movements in the late-twentieth century." Mobilization: An International Quarterly
"Upright’s work provides valuable insight into the contested nature of ‘natural’ food. "The Annals of Iowa
"Upright has given us a refreshing, insightful, and highly readable account of how one movement exercised such a constitutive influence."Political Science Quarterly
"[Upright’s] close case study of Minnesota’s radicalism and food politics adds a layer of analysis to our understanding of how countercultural ideas were put into practice that will be of interest to scholars of the Midwest."H-Net
"A detailed study of what co-operatives actually are, not a fantasy of one kind or another."May Day Books
"Grocery Activism is a fascinating look at how parallel movements gave rise to two big and important ideascooperatives and organicsas well as a subtle guide to how proponents of both might move forward in the era of Amazon."Civil Eats
"Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota dives back into the 1970s to paint a vivid image of the subversive world of organic groceries and food co-ops before the era of Whole Foods."Agriculture and Human Values
"The book is a robust consideration of both the cooperative spirit and the cooperative economic form and how these propelled local-level collective action that altered the national food-related institutions that sustain us."American Journal of Sociology