Bob Hope's description of a democrat.
http://youtu.be/4a6YdNmK77k
Posted on 04/25/2016 6:49:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There’s been a virus outbreak. The population at large has been infected and a large part of it now roams aimlessly searching for its next meal — of human brains. You know the drill, you’ve watched enough episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’ so you should be fine, right? Wrong. According to the experts at Psychology Today, it won’t be the toughest or bravest who will survive a zombie apocalypse. The ones who will thrive are vegans.
Here’s why vegans will survive a zombie apocalypse and meat eaters won’t:
1. The hunting problem
In a world full of zombies, there are no functioning supermarkets and the meat industry is a goner too, meaning that if you want to eat meat, you’ll have to go hunting for it.
“It’s easier to grow crops than to go hunting,” explains Chris Cooney, author of The Vegan Zombie, a book and blog about how vegans can survive the horror movie-like situation. “You’ll waste a lot of energy going out to look for an animal to kill and you have to watch out for potential zombies.”
While you’re out looking for dinner, adds Cooney, you’ll have to leave camp and your provisions will also be left out and could be raided by other passing survivors.
Since zombies also tend to swarm when they hear a sound, the shot from a hunting trip could also trigger a zombie attack, which will turn the meat eater into zombie meat.
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Studies have shown that a plant-based diet is healthier than a meat-based one. The consumption of meat has been linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes, dementia, breast cancer and heart disease. All of those chronic illnesses would be hard to treat in a post-zombie outbreak world.
“Medics, nurses and doctors are slim in an apocalypse so you’ll want to stay healthy,” says Cooney.
3. Being active is a must
Any survivor in a zombie-infested world is going to have to run at some point, and in order to run, one best be active. Research has shown that vegetarians are in general more physically active than meat-eaters, which could give them a leg up when running for their lives.
4. Animals could be infected
Factory farming has contributed to outbreaks of viruses before so who’s to say that in a post-apocalyptic world, it didn’t all start with meat?
As Jesse Eisenberg explained as the lead character in Zombieland:
“The plague of the 21st Century, remember mad cow disease? Well mad cow became mad person became mad zombie. It’s a fast acting virus that leaves you with a swollen brain, a raging fever, makes you hateful and violent and leaves you with a really bad case of the munchies.”
Even if the outbreak didn’t start with the animals, says Cooney, “you won’t know if the animals are infected or not.”
5. Vegans already know how to live without meat
So if you can’t buy meat, won’t take the risk of going hunting or don’t feel like taking the chance of eating a fillet that may or may not be infected with the zombie virus, that leaves you with a plant-based diet. Vegans would already be used to it, knowing what vegetables and legumes to have daily in order to have all vitamins and keep healthy. Meat eaters would have to learn. Thankfully, the process is fairly easy.
“I turned vegetarian when I was 14 before there was the internet or any place I could look at for information,” says Cooney of how it’s possible to adapt to the new diet even without a wealth of guidance online. “Within two weeks I was already feeling so much better.”
Now, 23 years later, Cooney shares his recipes in videos on his blog, which is a product of his love for horror movies and veganism, not the belief that a zombie apocalypse might actually happen. Still, it doesn’t hurt to be prepared. From greens and beans to vegetable soup and even an enchilada lasagna, he shows that all it takes to stay well fed in a post-apocalyptic world are a few supplies like a bowl and pot, a knife (which you’ll already have for protection) and the nature-provided ingredients.
His number one tip?
“Eat well and exercise. And that’s a tip that works even now. You don’t have to wait for the apocalypse to stay healthy and have a good life.”
Which is the reason humans have been farming for hundreds of thousands of years while hunters and gatherers only developed in the past few thousand years.
I have my survival plan right here.
Cardio.
Double tap.
Mhm.
Most of what he claims about vegans/vegetarians is outright false.
For instance, there are no studies that show that vegetarians or vegans are actually healthier than other people. The studies to date have been very poorly designed, and were designed to come to a particular conclusion. Really, we only know that vegans are healthy because they keep telling us so, even though they don’t look it. Human beings evolved as omnivores, meaning that we do best when eating an omnivorous diet. (And few people can stick with veganism for more than a few years—their bodies just can’t handle it.)
And all of that stuff about vegans knowing how to grow food—yeah, good luck with that when zombies are roaming the countryside looking for anything that moves. Crops take time and a fair amount of luck, because in that apocalyptic scenario, you don’t have the luxury of weather forecasting or handy yard and garden stores or any of the other luxuries that modern gardeners take for granted. And don’t think for a minute that some liberal vegan who likes to putter around in his “organic” gardener actually knows anything about the kind of heavy duty agriculture that would be needed to stay alive. Plus—did I mention zombies? They aren’t going to politely stay away for months while you grow a crop of whatever seeds you have on hand.
Meanwhile, the hunter is out and about—he is on the move. The zombies aren’t going to get him.
It is unlikely a vegan will be able to find enough edible plants to survive on simply by foraging. Most vegans probably wouldn’t recognize edible plants in the wild, and they would find few of the high-density kind of edible plant that humans need, especially if they aren’t eating meat. Animals, on the other hand, have bodies that are meant to digest the plant material that humans can’t. And animals are edible.
Yes, it is true that humans can get diseases from eating animals. We can also get diseases from plants. This is why we invented cooking. Cooking kills nasty stuff in all food.
And so on. This article ties together a while bunch of vegan/vegetarian memes that have been told and retold for so long that they really believe them to be true—but there is no evidence for any of it.
This is absolutely idiotic. Feeding oneself based on an EXCLUSIVELY plant diet is MUCH more difficult than if you at meat as well. Simply stated, most vegans would starve to death in an apocalypse.
Vegans require a farm big enough to feed the vegans who tend it in a Zombie scenario. So the math is, can a farm large enough to support 100 vegans year-round have a perimeter that 100 people can defend? If you have zombies penetrating your perimeter you cannot farm it. You must protect your water supply too.
A good novel that explores these concepts is The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham, in which zombie-like plants with lethal stingers, simple tropisms, and large numbers make it pretty hard to get civilization done, let alone farming.
Has anyone explored the concept that well-cooked zombies might be edible?
“OK. Zombies are after brains, so vegans are safe.”
‘Nuff said...
Which is why hunter-gatherers predated agriculture.
And why humans have canine teeth.
Is it better to be an omnivore or vegan after an Earth destroying gamma ray burst hits us?
Is it better to be an omnivore or vegan after an alien race of intelligent lizards impose their rule over us?
Is it better to be an omnivore or vegan if we're in a computer simulation?
Is it better to be an omnivore or vegan when the singularity occurs and the robots begin to dispose of us?
etc.
..Vegans might be tasty?...
Not nourishing enough for zombies. Vegans brains have turned to lettuce. No protein.
..One to the brain is enough. Double tap to the head wastes valuable ammo...
Living off vegetable only diets with sufficient calories and protein in a small space is hard. The Chinese can feed a family of four on two acres, but they have fish swimming in the flooded rice fields, pigs eating scraps and chickens eating bugs - and all that protein boosts the efficiency of the farm and caloric production per acre.
Ancient farmers had cows to graze barely productive lands and the grain stubble after the harvest, boosting food production. And pigs, again, at the inedible food parts and garbage, increasing caloric production.
While vegans could live off stored rice, beans and some canned/freezed dried stuff for a long time, they’d need vitamins and B12 supplements to live. So they could live a long time if they stocked up on all the necessities in advance - and the diet choice makes water all the more important to rehydrate and boil everything they have stocked up.
And while they’d be able to stock up cheap on rice, beans, freeze dried vegetables, etc, that type of diet results in 50% or more poo - making waste disposal an even bigger problem than for the meat eaters.
The only minor advantages I see for vegans in a zombie apocalypse:
* the food usually tastes so bad few will pig out; food will then last longer
* the peppers and hot spices they predominantly use are healthy, cheap and easy to grow
* if livestock attract zombies, the vegans win as long as they don’t have hordes of pets
* if someone breaks in to steal their food, thieves will find little to want to take, or in the case of the ones nearly living off chemical smoothies and supplements, have no idea what to take
* higher social cohesiveness among their group than most because they are already part of the same cult anyway
* for those who knowingly prep vegan, they’ll have a wealth of vitamins AND knowledge on nutrition, way less likely to die of malnutrition
* any group with guerrilla gardeners knows where all the edible plants are, including neighborhood gardens and edible plants in the park
* lower odds of contracting diseases from consuming infected animals and lower odds of contacting them at all unless pets are infected
* if you have “World War Z” movie type zombies, vegans may register as so sick that zombies leave them alone
* due to their tendency to be really thin and weak, they could more easily pass as zombies with makeup / guts on them
* these people tend to be anti-human and thus have no problem culling the sick or killing themselves
* when they have lots of vitamins and such stored, they have the means to poison those they don’t like; they won’t put up much of a fight on an invasion but can clean up via sneaky revenge - and with the lousy food, it isn’t flaming obvious from taste that the hot tofu mix is toxic
* vegans are more likely to have daughters, an important factor in the repopulating of the planet
Major disadvantages:
* trying to keep a guard dog alive in those circumstances is very difficult, and unlikely
* pet cats are nearly useless in this case and likely a liability
* general hatred of humanity and ZPG views of the rest means that if they survive, they won’t go forth and multiply
* low average calorie consumption means low fertility for the group
* if they see zombies as living things, they are dead unless the zombies can’t reach them at all - and then they are dead unless the zombies will rot away in a few months; if you can’t kill zombies and they last forever, you only last as long as the food supplies
* the rise of vegans unwilling to even have sex with meat eaters means smaller gene pool in the post-apocalypse
Vegans are known to stockpile guns and ammo./s
Silly mental game but I’ll play. How many hours does it take to pick a pound greens in a post apocalypse world? How many calories does that pound of greens contain?
An omnivore would set up a dozen snares, go back to the lair and pick a few greens to stew with the rabbit later when checking snares.
I think the whole zombie type story is silly as well.
However, if the stories were about EBT machines going down and fighting over food as the hoarders come out from the cities...that would be racist and no one would believe them.
I thought it was from George Romero.
7.62x39 154 grain soft point, just makes those zombie heads *explode* hee hee
Trees and bushes don’t carry crossbows.
Bob Hope's description of a democrat.
http://youtu.be/4a6YdNmK77k
Again with the zombies.
Enough with this, they need another plot device, not one already beat to death, reanimated and beaten to death again when Dawn of the Dead was released.
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