To ramp up
production, the US opened its first NCC
factory in Madison, Wisconsin, on 26 July, marking the
rise of what the US National Science Foundation predicts will become a $ 600 billion industry by 2020.
Participants will include: All in the Red, Art
Production Coop, Arts & Labor, The Base, Beyond Childcare Coop, Books Thru Bars NYC, Claiborne McDonald, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Deep Dish TV, Democracy Now, Fair Pay Music, Fixers Collective NYC, Flatbush Mutual Aid, Flux
Factory, Fractured Atlas, Free Cooper Union, freeDimensional, Hibridos Collective, The Illuminator, Intern Labor Rights, I Ran into Iran, Lanchonete, Making Worlds, Mayfirst / PeopleLink, MetaLocal, Mexicali
Rose, Mutual Aid NYC, Neter, NYC Anti-Eviction Network, Nsumi Collective, OurGoods, OWS Screen Printers Guild, Paper Tiger Television, The Pedagogy Group, The Public School, Radix Media, REV -, Tech - Ops, TimeBanksNYC, Times Up, Trade School, Trust Art, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, W.A.G.E., and more.
In the 60 years since, corn prices fell steadily as output
rose, and meat
production shifted from diversified, pastured - based systems almost exclusively to corn - intensive,
factory - style confinement systems.