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--- public_diet [2008-07-12 11:47] – katerich
+++ public_diet [2008-07-12 12:26] – katerich
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   * Current conditions
-Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett (partnership). Tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc.
+Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc.
-HTTP is a [[furtherfield.org]] project.
+HTTP is a [[http://furtherfield.org]] project.
-HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits with written constitutions.
+HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits, with written constitutions.
 Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by Arts Council England.
 HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed / live-work.
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    Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu)
-   Stock considerations include: regulatory perimeters, shelf life (perishability),
+   Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be
-   network relations, the facility of the food item to host information.
+   primary or exclusionary.
-   Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary.
+   Stock considerations include
-   These include seasonality, locality, information on source, information on carriage,
-   trade relations with source, trade relations of delivery (embodied by courier).
+   - compliance with or skirting regulatory perimeters
+   - shelf life / perishability
+   - exploration of network relations
-   Expand conception of localness beyond the territorial village model
+   - the facility of the food item to host information
-   to a shared set of connections plus swift transit routes
+   - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce
+   - information on carriage, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier.
+   - seasonality
+   - locality.
+   Expand conception of localness beyond the territorially bounded, inland model of
+   the village, to a shared set of connections plus swift transit routes
    like the scale-free hubs of the internet.
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    source information. The priority is to expanding the product monologue to articulate a
    larger picture of the world it moves through.
+Eg. [[tea_from_bangladesh]]
 [[common_products]]
-   The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one;
+   The commodity (as object produced for sale on the market) conceals its relationships
-   the product of the commons is filled with human relations, although including
+   except for the money relation; conversely the product of the commons is filled with
-   possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.)
+   human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.)
+[[breakdown_of_expenses]]
+[[fair_trade_relations]]
-   Open up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS righteous
+   Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS
-   boasting and promotion of purity fetish.
+   righteous boasting and promotion of purity fetishes.
    Undercut profit-motivated product aryanism of fresh 'n' wild.
    Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute
-   via sell/trade/gifting stock.
+   menu items via sell/trade/gifting stock.
-   Economy of miniaturisation. Enables hosting small batches/single items: ultra seasonality.
+   Economy of miniaturisation / low scale. Enables hosting small batches/single items
-   Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable
+   ultra short seasons.
-   perhaps database-driven
+   Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, perhaps database-driven,
-   and list items currently in negotiation or pending.
+   and include a section for items not in stock eg. in negotiation or pending.