Our Aims and Values

Dublin Food Co-op aims to provide wholesome, nutritious food and ecologically acceptable products and services to its members, in accordance with the following values:

• to deal in organically grown food which is Irish-produced where possible
• to discriminate in favour of ecologically acceptable products and not to deal in meat or meat products
• to promote the rational use of the earth's resources and in particular to promote the use of ecologically acceptable packaging
• to discriminate positively in favor of countries which uphold basic human rights, when importing wholefoods
• to supply wholefoods to members at the wholesale or supplier cost plus the minimum margin necessary to cover the Society's operating expenses and the need for financial reserves
• to make shopping a convivial, community experience
• to promote co-operation and co-operatives
• to promote consumer food co-operatives as an important means of building a locally integrated organic food economy
• to encourage the use of the Irish language in social and economic relationships and to promote Irish culture where possible