"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> The recent thread on dirty leeks made me think about just how many
> people have no clu' where food really comes from.
>
> In the event of a nuclear holocaust, what is the estimated percentage of
> humans that could even begin to survive? How many can consider
> harvesting a wild plant for food? How many people can dress out a fresh
> animal for food?
> Frogs? Fish? Rabbits? Deer? Etc.?
> How many people really know where food comes from (other than grossery
> stores) so could survive off of the land?
> How many people can hunt and gather like our ancestors did for thousands
> of years?
> This would make a really cool survey. :-)
> Peace, Om
>
>

Since most of us have pets, would you friccasee your cat if you were
fixin' to starve? Hard to think about.
I have enough calories in jam form to last a couple years.. And enough
herbals in text and preserved to stay alive awhile anyway.
Neat book series was _Island in the Sea of Time_ by S.M. Stirling.
Explored what happened when Nantucket Island and a Coast Guard ship were
tripped back to 1300 bc. Lots of very coincidental things happened to help
them survive, but very eye opening on just how hard it is to "live off the
land." Edrena