“A guide fo living off natures bounty in urban, rural and wilderness argas“Tiere 1s No way To RETURN Jo THE PAST. ALL ONE CAN DO \S REMEMBER WHERE ONE HAS BEEN, AND. CARRY THAT KNOWLEDGE \NTO THE FUTURE... oO fe Watts, © 1998 NEX™ ISSUE: Primitive Shelters,Spri Send vs your sent bul ions 1 STEENS, Cooking methods “primitive (piety) Ya. Of or pertaining to an eat fest of orginal stage or state. b. Archetypa 2. Char acterized by simply or etudity; unsophisticated: prinlive weapons 9, Or parting to oaly stages Inthe evolution of human culture: prinve societies. Sonepay the power Will die... the lights will fade... the stars will shine ‘sophistlcate(sevis-trra) «1. to cause fo become WE A geapy [Esper LIVE IN © [oeticciicmrericcntasteme: RUINS... falsity ornate eohistry- a plausable but mis- leading or falacious argumont aul reasoning Y 5 fourtty gral Foren, to Giving off at" * if The in urban, rural and wilderness areas THE WILD FEAST ‘Wild foods were the basis of the hum cfat for nectly milion years, depending on how yo deine "human". Today oniy a smal percentage of the world's population survives ently off 0 ‘wid leods, wilh alorger percentage combining them wilh domestic crops. Siuctes by ‘onthrepolagits on primitive diets have confimed wha! may teem kulincually tue fo many of Us: thol the lacnness andl pully of wild meat sources, and the superler nutlent content of wld plans haiped! he humyn snectas maintain excallent hecsth and longevity for 9% of horny toluton. t's ciyin th fst 10.009 years thal domesticated animals and plants have (for reasons unknown enlered the piclue of humyn cullixes In ow tins, thisis no! an absolute sfotement agains domesticated plans andl animais, Bul 18 @ clue os fe the secrots of humyn health in petistry. For example, primlva Gels that have been shucied in contemporery nes hhave proved higher h caiclumn than our modem diets, without the use of any daly products ‘whalzoever, The abundance of lealy greens in primitive dies supply more than enough caleiur ‘and countess ofner minerals and vitamins, and because of the lack of refining processes and “ont-nutiens" Bee sugar, cotfeine, and carbonation, those vitamins exe actualy absorbed into the boay, unikein the modern westem ciel. Silay, native cultures ofthe for north, where ‘enim proteins make up Ihe mejfily of the dl, have shown no incidence of the clogged ‘teres and hecrt elseases so commonly associated with orima ftsin the modern word. ‘Much has been theorted about the social problems that have arisen due fo the abundancr ‘of food sleves used by early agrarian cules, he excess al slored by early agrarian females eating gtain-based dlelsn sedentary communes ' seen as a pimary cause of overpopuiaio due lo hype-ferilly, The active les of hunter-gatherer is commonly seen os the key to pphyscal ness Stil cutivaled foods can have o heallhiul place I hurmyn dels, and hopalaly learning liom the rislaket of Bot! humyn societies wil help us nd our way Into on egaltavian tuive. SCAVENGER/FORAGER Thi pomphlet was not created withthe intention of encouraging hunting, or giving up foot Cultion altogether, Rather than returning fo ¢ purely "hunter-gatherer" ilesiyle, we advocet ‘form of subsistence the! comines uibon and 1a! horfcusue/petmaculhxe, with what we calla “scavenger-(oroge este. Although some dle-hords may want to leave civilization bbohind, sof out for the wikdemess and proctice primitive hunting and gathering techniques {which wa hava much interest n practicing in the case of survival), we are more inlerested in bringing wid food gathering and readkil scavenging iio our present day Hlstyie. Our future ‘ison fone of a horticultural, vilage-scola, community located neor wild area for foraging, but as we are sli andies, our curent dlatary habits combine backyard-scole gardening. ddumpsterdiving, and bulk organic staples, along with foraged plant foods and scavenged, toad, ANARCHO-PRIMITIVISM? {he term anorcho-priniivs! describes some powertu ideas that we Idently with songly I ako Cries ome serlous Ideological baggage Ihat we reject and find simplistic, We dslance ourtelves rom the label mostly bocause ofthis baggage, bul we fal fo see the pont In casing ‘onesall a "pints!" ot alt you don't ve piivly cr cre at least making staps towards earring primitive ving. Therefore, we are simply cnarchsts wit an interest n exploing paiive sills wile practicing ecological cooperative Ising. n order fo set our klaas apart from those ‘norchiss who feat ecological ving wil folow natural aller the aboltion ofthe state and ‘capitolm, wa cot ourselves “green anarchist”. We deeply beleva that reconnecting with ‘widness and ecological seways fon mary level i estentos to the boltion of thore oppressiv soc nsftllons and cization isl