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Grain-growing regions have grain, not food. Short term survival in oft-fantasized SHTF scenarios depends on easily accessible calories. A grain elevator full
by nate_meurer 12y ago
Grain-growing regions have grain, not food. Short term survival in oft-fantasized SHTF scenarios depends on easily accessible calories. A grain elevator full of maize is not accessible calories. Less so a cow. So while you're in the country trying to break in to a grain bin so you can chew on some raw millet, I'll be cowering (and crying) in my suburban basement waiting for the National Guard to set up a food distribution center close enough for me to fight my way to it with two mags of 9mm and a sharp stick.
See how absurd these discussions get?
BTW, I have family in a small Kansas town a with couple thousand people, four dipshit cops, roughly equal amounts of meth and ammo, and one giant grain elevator. If SHTF I bet you my mano&metate that they show up at my house in the city within days or weeks.
- hga 12y ago"A grain elevator full of maize is not accessible calories." Only to those who so little imagination they literally can't pound rocks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metate Although as Nuclear War Survival Skills (NWSS) points out, bundling three metal pipes together works a lot better. Boil with water and you have edible gruel. Maybe not enough fat to keep children thriving (NWSS said that about wheat, at least), but that can wait a bit.
- nate_meurer 12y agoIf you had bothered to read my previous post, you'd know that I won't have my mano or metate because I will have lost them both to YOU in a frivolous bet. I'll look into those bundled pipes. You figure out how to fend off the co-op members when we try to break into their granary. They don't care much for city folk down there.