Our second largest employment field, agriculture can be simply divided into two larger categories: fishing and farming.  Because of the steps taken by the early researchers in botany and plant life, the farming and irrigation techniques used by our farmers are radically different from the farming practiced in the outside world.  Special steps have been taken by our farmers to avoid excessive chemical additives within their crops and to preserve precious topsoil.  While livestock are raised within West of Eden, most are treated more as pets or animal companions rather than as sources of food.  The animals, unlike many of creatures used in industrial farming, ours are entirely free-range, and are only killed for their meat after a natural death.  Likewise, the role of the fisherman within our West of Eden  is very different of those seen within the harbors of many outside societies.  Our fishermen go through specialized training and study to identify the vast amount of marine life in the areas they fish.  Furthermore, the fishermen have abandoned the use of nets, which have proven far too lethal and harmful to other animals.  Being a community centered largely around the observation and study of plant life, the fields of natural science and agriculture are the most specialized areas of employment for us.  Thanks to the large steps taken by earlier scientists in community, the laboratories and research facilities for those wishing to endeavor within a career of scientific study are among the world's best.  Furthermore, the wide variety of natural scientist within West of Eden, ranging from botanist to biochemists and zoologists, all practice their research and experimentation with full respect of other natural creatures with no harmful animal testing.

 

The advancements in agriculture, housing, and general state of living within the our community has allowed those of the community to more or less choose at their discretion any employment which they enjoy.  While agriculture and the natural sciences with their close working relationship with the natural world have proved to be the most popular career paths, the fine arts and many other diverse career paths are also commonly chosen.  This being said, we can choose to specialize within one career field while simultaneously endeavoring within the artistic world or some other field of vocation.  The multi-tasking process is made possible largely through a combination of an improvement in the ease through which all members of the community can be met and the small size of the community itself. 

 

 

 

        In outsider terms, the allocation of resources within West of Eden occurs through a barter-like system similar to that of communism.  Resources and services are met by need with no immediate type of payment, but instead with giving specialized goods or services to those who need them.  The economic system when coupled with the community's efficiency, has allowed for virtually every individual's needs to be met within the community.  Without the prospect of starving or homeless people within our community, we are then able to benefit from any luxury items produced with no sense of social inequality or guilt.