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-eral Trade http://feraltrade.org
+Feral Trade cafe at HTTP gallery
+Feral Trade http://feraltrade.org
 HTTP http://www.http.uk.net
 HTTP is a cultural minority in a mainly working class and cafe free
-residential area, NE london. The cafe will be very small scale and
+residential area of NE London. The cafe will start off very small scale and
-modelled as a natural extension to office tea and coffee consumption. It
+is modelled as a means of extending natural office tea and coffee service
+to gallery visitors and locals. It
 is not motivated by cash profit, although goods should cover their own
 costs.
 All goods will be served with information about source and/or delivery,
-including the materiality of cash transactions to procure them. Visitors
+including the materiality of cash transactions performed to procure them.
-should be able to buy coffee etc either by the cup or in bags to take
+Visitors should be able to buy coffee etc either by the cup or in bags to
-home.
+take home.
 The feral trade courier process uses moving social networks, including
 known and funded cultural travel to UK, to conduct international grocery
-trade by entirely social means. Documenting these journeys and
+trade by primarily social means. It expands the idea of food provenance
-relationships expands the idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style
+beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to a critical broader
-fetishisation of origins or producers to a broader ecology of supply.
+ecology of supply.
 The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers,
 local and foreign, and to expand a definition of localness beyond the