Posted on 07/24/2008 6:58:30 AM PDT by Perdogg
A Wall Street Journal columnist has advised people to "start stockpiling food" and an ABC News Report says "there are worrying signs appearing in the United States where some … locals are beginning to hoard supplies." Now there's concern that the U.S. government may be competing with consumers for stocks of storable food.
"We're told that the feds bought the entire container of canned butter when it hit the California docks. (Something's up!)," said officials at Best Prices Storable Foods in an advisory to customers.
Spokesman Bruce Hopkins told WND he also has had trouble obtaining No. 10 cans of various products from one of the world's larger suppliers of food stores, Oregon Freeze Dry.
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Yes.
Maybe you can make a deal with them for some of that butter.
http://www.theepicenter.com/freeze_dried_and_dehydrated.html
Then the answer to your question is No, of course not.
“Is Survivalism for crazy people?”
Its only crazy until something happens, like a flood, hurricane, or earthquake. Then you are a target for those who didn’t prepare.
We once all stored a winters worth of food in our basements. Now most people are lucky to have 3-4 days in their pantry. All these ‘free men’ think its stupid to be prepared and yet they are totally dependent on their government to ship their next meal in from mexico.
But to answer your question, yes its crazy.
Most of us don't have the capability to stockpile a year's worth of food, but we should certainly have more than a few days' worth in the pantry. Even apart from the possibility of economic and social disruption, you never know when a hurricane or similar natural disaster might cut you off from the supermarket for a time.
Here in Atlanta, every time a snowflake falls, the grocery stores are packed with people buying bread, milk, and beer. I've always preferred to "beat the rush" by already having what I need in stock.
Hate to tell you but those are concrete forms, not coffins.
The butter is just a ruse, to throw us off the trail. It's the No. 10 CANS that are important, not what is IN them.
Someone is hoarding the #10 cans somewhere. The question is, why?
Too big to be coffins and also missing the bottom. If that many people die you don’t use coffins anyway. You dig a big hole and crowd everyone in.
WHen all my neighbors were stockpiling food and water before Y2K, I would ask them if they had weapons. If they said no, I would say “I’m stockpiling ammunition” (I wasn’t because I don’t own a gun).
They would ask why, and I’d say “because with a gun I can get all the food I want from people who have no weapons.”.
I don’t have the organizational skills, but if I did I’d try to rotate a year’s worth of food through the house. I figure anything bad that happens, if it isn’t solved in a year, we are screwed anyway.
I quit going to their website for that reason. I won't condemn all their columnists, but they have more than their share of weirdos.
“Someone is hoarding the #10 cans somewhere. The question is, why?”
because they work better than tin foil?
It was one of those things that I just thought about while I was single, but never more than in an idle "that would be a good idea" sort of way. Now that I'm contemplating marriage to a young lady who already has a young daughter, I find myself seriously planning.
Only someone who has never been through a natural disaster would ask that question.
Is Survivalism for crazy people?
Just curious what Freepers think.
We don’t live in a fortified compound and I only wear camo when hunting. I’m no mall commando but I carry a gun. We have 1000’s of rounds of ammo but that’s more of a buying decision...bulk is cheaper and I shoot a lot.
My family could live comfortably in our own house, year round, on a well balanced diet, for 2 years with our current stores. Once you build an inventory, which takes time, rotation is the key.
We also maintain a large garden and do a lot of canning & pickling. We live near a large lake and have filtration capabilities. The local mountains are abundant with game from grouse & rabbits to deer & elk and we know how to cure meats.
We’re not crazy and don’t expect (or HOPE as some survivalist wackos do) for the collapse of civilisation. We’re just prepared.
I was a kid in the late '40s in New York City (the days of "duck and cover" in school). I remember seeing garbage trucks with the Civil Defence symbol on them and wondered what they had to do with Being Prepared.
Years later I learned that they were to be used to cart off the bodies of the A-bomb victims - that's how naive the times were.
Cut a piece of plywood to fit flat inside your closet.
Buy in bulk enough canned goods to fill the bottom of the closet. (cans should all be the same height.
Lay the plywood in so that it covers the cans.
Place your shoes &etc on top of the plywood and forget about the cans underneath, til needed.
I am a survivalist. I was just seeing what Freepers think of them.
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