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Foraging, Freeganism and the Primacy of Experience

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , on August 18, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Brilliant inventions, Malcolm Gladwell writes in The New Yorker, tend to arise simultaneously in disparate geographic locations. Urban foraging, too, was dreamt out of the collective unconscious and onto the Earth plane by multiple people – of which I am one. For me the appeal of foraging is that it acts as a powerful catalyst, [...]

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John Zerzan, primitivist superstar

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , on December 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

There’s no doubt modern society is ecologically destructive and unsustainable. Can the technology that defines it be blamed for social oppression, too? The primitivist philosopher John Zerzan thinks so. Zerzan argues that agriculture is inherently oppressive because it requires the control and domination of nature. Zerzan says it is the root cause of other forms [...]

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Business Has No Business In Wild Food

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged on December 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A Los Angeles business man named Howard Manning e-mailed me today about a venture he’s been trying to start since 2001: He wants to take nuts and berries from public, urban trees and employ homeless people at minimum wage to harvest and process them into specialty food items, such as acorn-flour tortilla chips, for sale [...]

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