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--- public_diet [2008-07-15 14:31] – katerich
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     activities and how you get from A to B.
     Even at this small scale it has a polemic value.
-[[feral_trade_economy]]
+((Feral Trade relies on a moving network of social connections for the transportation of goods. Trade managed through an intricate time-space-personal system covering thousands of miles, linking hundreds of people, like the Trobriand islanders of yore. The orderly distribution of goods via a variety of motives, of which gain is not prominent.))
 Economic
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 Library visitor numbers are low but it's the intensity of the experience that counts.
     http: It would be a coup to overcome London geography and keep the cafe open in
-    winter. Without affecting global warming.
+    winter, without affecting global warming.
 Patio bonfires worth looking into.
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    - compliance with or skirting the [[uk_premises_regulations|regulatory perimeters]]
    - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste
-   - the facility of the food item to [[common_products|reveal information]] including
+   - the facility of the food item to common_products|reveal information ((The commodity,
+as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships
+except for the money relation. The product of the commons is filled with
+human relations, including possibly unpleasant ones (Peter Linebaugh).
+There is no commons without commoning, without
+communities of producers and particular flows and modes of relations).
+To common: to produce and hold in common. Commoning produces social relations in
+the form of commons, freely associated humanity.
+http://osdir.com/ml/culture.india.sarai.reader/2006-06/msg00073.html)) including
    - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce
    - information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/s.
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 Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, alongside the date and price of purchase.
-Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included on the menu, along with  their product information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue beyond simple boasting and the promotion of purity fetishes (such as the truth claims, elevated origins and destinies - gourmet, organic, health - promoted by fresh and wild style packaging http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products); or the homogenous landscape of happy farmers that [[fair_trade|Fair Trade]] propagates;
+Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included on the menu, along with  their product information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue beyond simple boasting and the promotion of purity fetishes (such as the truth claims, elevated origins and destinies - gourmet, organic, health - promoted by fresh and wild style packaging http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products); or the homogenous landscape of happy farmers that Fair Trade ((Fair Trade focuses its product communiques on the icon of the farmer/producer - http://feraltrade.org/fair - a homogenous landscape
+and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture
+labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue.
+See Gleaning, François Millet 1857 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm))propagates;
 to instead articulate a richer picture of the world the product moves through.
 [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example.