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| Activity<\/td>\n | Prime Purpose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| In the beginning… \nEach individual or family unit foraged and\/or \nhunted for food<\/td>\n | \nSurvival<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Then \nFamilies coalesced into small communities \nto do better at the hunter\/gatherer game<\/td>\n | \nDivision of Labour \nMore Assured Survival<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Over time \nWe specialised (some gathered, some farmed, \nsome hunted) and traded<\/td>\n | \nDivision of Labour \nMore Assured Survival \nWider Variety of Foods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| This developed further \nLarger and more risky trading required capital \nand risk sharing so corporations were born<\/td>\n | \nWider Variety of Foods \nProfit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Which led to \nLarger corporations gaining control of seed \nstrains, grazing and farming lands and \nadopting strategies that maximise yield rather \nthan nutrition<\/td>\n | \nProfit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| And we now have \nVery large corporations in control of food \ndistribution, manufacture, marketing and \nretailing, growing low nutrient crops with \nartificail fertilisers, pesticides and \nherbicides in a way that is destructive to \nour health, preparing foods with toxins and \nsugar that destroy our health, promoting \ndestructive additives and ingredients as \nhealthy when they are far from it.<\/td>\n | \nLarger Profits<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n This needs to change. Every dollar you spend props up the current system and degrades your and others\u2019 health or contributes to building a better system. 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 … <\/p>\n |