There's another reason to start a rabbit warren - do you have a diabetic in the family?
My 15 year old son is a type 1 diabetic. He doesn't make any of his own insulin. If we were to be cut off of his insulin supply, he'd be dead in short time.
I'm *praying* that a diet of rabbit may buy him enough time to get his insulin back.
There's such a thing as "Rabbit Starvation". Rabbit is *very* lean meat and a steady diet of rabbit is not good for the long term precisely because it has no fat. If I'm thinking about this right, that's exactly what he'd need. NO carbs, NO fat and pure protein. It wouldn't be pleasant, but if he had enough water and exercise, it might just get him through.
Type 1 diabetes is a terrible disease. The ONLY people who survive it live in western nations. If the SHTF, I don't know if he'd survive it. What sucks is that, other than the diabetes, he's an intelligent, athletic, healthy young man.
Frankly, *that* terrifies me more than anything else.
My prayers go out for your son.
I do know the feeling, a month or so ago, I learned that I really could not exist for long, without oxygen, as the electric was out here for 10 hours and my oxygen generator does not work without electric.
I now have back up bottles and a portable set up, but they cost an arm and a leg to rent and I still only have 8 hours of backup.
I did not know that rabbit was good for diabetes, that is good to know and I will tell my brother.
Yesterday, I posted about a herb called fenugreek see
post 1435.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2181392/posts?page=1435#1435
This was also information from Cottonball:
Not just the fenugreek sprouts are useful, but the seeds are apparently quite powerful. I had 3 dwarf hamsters a few years ago and diabetes runs in that species. The vets had no idea what to do for them. When one started showing symptoms, a hamster forum recommended diet changes along with some form of fenugreek - either a tea in their water bottle, giving them 5 seeds a day if they would eat them, or put fenugreek powder on their food. Worked like a charm! They lived long past the expected life span (1 /1/2 years) to a ripe old age of 2 1/2 or so.
1,572 posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 6:31:50 PM by CottonBall
Prayers for your son. Wonderful idea on the rabbit also. The food supply if TSHTF is included in my prayers for you.
>>>>I’m *praying* that a diet of rabbit may buy him enough time to get his insulin back.<<<<
Make that cinnamon rabbit. I have several friends who have dramatically moderated their insulin needs with cinnamon.
Might try it BEFORE TSHTF...