| Activity | Prime Purpose |
| In the beginning… Each individual or family unit foraged and/or hunted for food |
Survival |
| Then Families coalesced into small communities to do better at the hunter/gatherer game |
Division of Labour More Assured Survival |
| Over time We specialised (some gathered, some farmed, some hunted) and traded |
Division of Labour More Assured Survival Wider Variety of Foods |
| This developed further Larger and more risky trading required capital and risk sharing so corporations were born |
Wider Variety of Foods Profit |
| Which led to Larger corporations gaining control of seed strains, grazing and farming lands and adopting strategies that maximise yield rather than nutrition |
Profit |
| And we now have Very large corporations in control of food distribution, manufacture, marketing and retailing, growing low nutrient crops with artificail fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides in a way that is destructive to our health, preparing foods with toxins and sugar that destroy our health, promoting destructive additives and ingredients as healthy when they are far from it. |
Larger Profits |
Collectives, specialisation, trading and risk sharing are not necessarily bad developments. If you had ethical people involved all along the line there are advantages to grouping, specialisation, trade and economies of scale. It is when you introduce the prority of profit over the quality of the product produced that you have the problems we have today.
This needs to change. Every dollar you spend props up the current system and degrades your and others’ health or contributes to building a better system.
Please choose wisely.