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Originally Posted by kennyc
Depends on the nature of the disaster etc.... and what about the mutton?  |
That really IS the crux of the planning. Do you plan for a few days power outage or do you plan for an End-of-Civilization disaster? Do you plan to remain in your own home, or move to an area easier for survival? Not many apartment dwellers worry about keeping enough water for a stable full of horses, or have space for a room full of food for a family of four for six months. Farm dwellers need to consider the needs of the farm animals. Apartment dwellers need to consider the needs of perhaps a cat, dog or hamster.
In the past several hundred years there have only been several week long natural disaster emergencies in civilized countries where food and water have been problematic (other than war times) Flood, earthquake, snow or ice storm, hurricane, etc. With the exception of the hurricane flooding in New Orleans, neither the US nor Europe has suffered long term disaster food shortages. A
week gets to be a news-worthy
long term situation.
Over in the Survival forums they are all planing for 'the big one' and stocking up with a year's worth of food for each member of the family. In the knife forums they are discussing 'zombie choppers' to deal with that very serious problem. Personally, I learned how to knap flint into arrowheads, axes, and knives so that I can corner the market on them when the next ice age hits and we all have to move into caves and eat mastodons, and wooley mammoths.
What do you suppose the emergency will be that you must prepare for? My wife and I prepare for earthquakes because they occur frequently where we live. We prepare for hostage taking because we frequent areas where hostages are taken. (If we were smarter we'd stop going to those areas.
) We don't prepare for zombies and we may just live to regret it. At least, that's what the guys in the knife forums told us.
Edit: Oh... we will be very happy to eat the mutton. But even happier to eat lamb.
.As for waste eating large animals... it's doubtful there would be much waste. Too many hungry people to feed.
Stitchawl