Food storage

Food storage is both a traditional domestic skill and is important industrially. Food is stored by almost every human society and by many animals. Storing of food has several main purposes:preparation for periods of scarcity or faminetaking advantage of short term surplus of food as at harvest timeenabling a better balanced diet throughout the yearpreparing for special events and celebrationsplanning for catastrophe or emergencyprotection against predators or others
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