Food

[FISHPOND]

Originally Posted by andrew cochran

Am I the only one with the chicken idea! lol

The freezer works until you lose power. But water dosen't spoil unless it gets opened.

I have 18 hens, they are great for meat and eggs, just have shoot whoever tries to take 'em

[Rambo]

In the event of a SHTF scenario, you can bet there will be plenty of cats running loose as pets will be the first to be put out by their owners. Very tender and easy to kill and clean. Cats, the other white meat.

[Cyrano]

Originally Posted by TexasT

So will cockroaches. Stock up on those. I hear they're also creamy in the middle.

Actually, T, cockroaches won't survive nuclear radiation, at least not for long.

A Mythbusters episode busted this myth. The team exposed fruit flies, cockroaches and flour beetles to doses of radiation from a cobalt-60 radiation source at a nuclear lab in California. The levels used were 1,000 rad (which will quickly and painfully kill a human), 10,000 rad and 100,000 rads. After 30 days the cockroaches were down to 30% survivors at 1,000 rads, 10% at 10,000 rads, and all of them were dead at 100,000 rads. Contrary to urban myth, the bug most likely to survive a nuclear bombing is the flour beetle! More of them survived 30 days after exposure to 100,000 rads (about half, if I remember correctly).

Besides, cockroaches are dependent on man for food. In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman looked at all the effects if humankind were to suddenly and completely vanish. One of them was a swift and massive die-off of rats and roaches due to their adaptation to the urban environment; in ten words or less, they'd starve to death.

[Farmer]

Honey,
Heaps of sugar and it never goes off even if mistreated

[TexasT]

Originally Posted by Cyrano

Actually, T, cockroaches won't survive nuclear radiation, at least not for long.

A Mythbusters episode busted this myth. The team exposed fruit flies, cockroaches and flour beetles to doses of radiation from a cobalt-60 radiation source at a nuclear lab in California. The levels used were 1,000 rad (which will quickly and painfully kill a human), 10,000 rad and 100,000 rads. After 30 days the cockroaches were down to 30% survivors at 1,000 rads, 10% at 10,000 rads, and all of them were dead at 100,000 rads. Contrary to urban myth, the bug most likely to survive a nuclear bombing is the flour beetle! More of them survived 30 days after exposure to 100,000 rads (about half, if I remember correctly).

Besides, cockroaches are dependent on man for food. In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman looked at all the effects if humankind were to suddenly and completely vanish. One of them was a swift and massive die-off of rats and roaches due to their adaptation to the urban environment; in ten words or less, they'd starve to death.

Are flour beetles creamy on the inside?