On Aug 27, 2:46 pm, Omelet > wrote:
> ....
> 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? [snip all the repetitions of the thought]

It's true that contemporary urban dwellers are further from and less
knowledgeable about food sources than used to be the case before the
industrial revolution. So what? I don't see this as a big deal at
all. Human beings are adaptable. That's how they learned the skills
you seem to be bemoaning the loss of, and that's how they learned how
to efficiently provide food in usable form to millions of city
dwellers. In the event of some humongous but survivable disaster
they'll learn how to adapt to whatever the new conditions are.
Probably. Or die.

I don't see that losing the knowledge of how to skin and butcher and
cook a squirrel is a very big deal. Those who were best at that 150
years ago didn't know how to tweak their computer graphics program.
It's not that bad a trade. -aem