An escape from industrial foods, foraging nourishes soul and body | Aeon Essays

Offering an escape from industrial foods, foraging nourishes the soul and body, but it needs democratic access to the land

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There's not enough for everyone to forage, passing laws allowing everyone to forage would be like a swarm of locusts that the environment might no bounce back from. Wild animals can't just go to Aldi's if hipsters "foraged" all the food.

These days you can't really trust foraged food due to all the pollution
- In some countries (with low population density and low pollution) there are laws allowing to roam and forage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
  
  The only mention of foraging is berries in Norway, and that doesn't even include every kind of berry...
  
  Wild berry foraging is part of the right. Picking cloudberries may, however, be restricted on privately owned land in northern parts of Norway.[
In 17th- to 20th-century England, the Lockeian idea that property should be made and held by the highest-value creators formed the justification for enclosure of the commons.

Thats not a lockeian idea. Locke was quite clear that private property was unjustifiable when there wasn't as much and as good available for everyone else.
Obviously at high population densities foraging is itself a problem.

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