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    Coincide with HTTP core curatorial principles    Coincide with HTTP core curatorial principles
    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.
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 +   * Stock Options
  
 Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include: Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include:
  
-   - compliance with or skirting the [[uk_premises_regulations|regulatory perimeters]] +   - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters 
-   - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste+   - shelf life: avoid sales incentive or waste
    - the facility of the food item to reveal information ((The commodity,       - the facility of the food item to reveal information ((The commodity,   
 as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships  as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships 
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    - seasonality, including transportation seasons    - seasonality, including transportation seasons
    - locality    - locality
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-  * Information 
  
     All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu).      All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). 
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 +  * Information
  
 Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, alongside the date and price of purchase. 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 focuses its product communiques on the icon of the farmer/producer - http://feraltrade.org/fair - a homogenous landscape  +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 purity fetishes (eg. 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 propagates ((an image set 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)) http://feraltrade.org/fair;  
-and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture  +to articulate a broader picture of the world the product moves through. 
-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. [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example.
    
-  * Other Information 
  
-[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: The cafe menu to also include items and incidents in the transit of cash preformed for the goods' procurement: particularly obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of the smooth movement of finance across global networks.+  * Other Menu Information 
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 +[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: Menu also to include items and incidents in the transit of cash preformed for the goods' procurement: particularly obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of the smooth movement of finance across global networks. 
  
    * Reciprocity    * Reciprocity
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    Expand the notion of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village     Expand the notion of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village 
-   or nation state, to more closely replicate the world HTTP works in: a shared set +   or nation state, to more closely replicate the world HTTP works in. A shared set 
    of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet.     of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. 
  
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 Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP  Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP 
-to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys and relationships expands attention to food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation  +to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones, and document this process via the Feral Trade Courier database, http://feraltrade.org.  
-of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.               +Actively promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.               
  
    * Regulations    * Regulations
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