FOLLOW THE FOOD
Yeah. Go where it grows and you can't really miss. I'm not a 'foodie' so I don't need that sumptuous combination of flavors in order to be satisfied. I can eat a lot of raspberries before I need to taste anything else. For days and days I could eat nothing but raspberries and I wouldn't mind taking a hike to get to them. Of course I might not be as merry about this system during potato and onion season when nothing else is available. And let's face it, if we had to follow the food around every day we'd spend all our time looking for it and trying to stake out a prime spot for the reaping. That wouldn't leave much time to do anything else which makes food finding a kind of 'job' and I'm not sure what that does to the GNP -- or is that GDP now? And just how is the Gross National Product different than the Gross Domestic Product anyway? (Do they change the names just for grins?) Looking for food and staking out your spot could be exhausting, time consuming and economically unsound -- it's hard enough to get a good seat on the sidewalk at the Rose Parade, how would we do if we all rushed to the hills to wait for the ripest avocados to fall out of the trees? And if we're all driving to the hills in individuals autos then I'm not sure I see the point of the trade off. I've always thought it was a mistake for humans to have abandoned the nomadic lifestyle but to make a return to this simple life we'd have to be willing to move around on our own steam because if we're constantly on the move we're going to have to give up every available inch of dirt to grow the gas substitute to fuel our travel. And if we do that there won't be any food to follow. We'd also have to unlearn a lot of our dog eat dog behaviors in order to become 'civilized' enough to be nomads. No -- we'd need another leap in evolution to accomplish that. So I have another idea.