The vast majority of folks in the citys will stay there and starve to death before they go out and kill and eat a deer, dog, cow, horse ect ect. Its just not in 90 percent of the folk out there. They might be able to consume an animal after they are starving but not until then. How to kill people will be on the top of my list to ensure they don't come and eat my deer, dogs, horses and cows. Remember all the 22 ammo we all bought back when it wasn't readily available? this is what its now for.
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Foraging: what it really takes.
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I was just thinking about salt, considering if something were to happen, where would a person acquire it naturally? Sugar would be easier to get with fruit, but salt seems like a tougher element to stock up on unless you're close to the ocean or a local salt mine.
In this part of the country they used to have "salt licks" , places where concentrations of salt came through the ground. These have probably been mostly built over or lost. Salt would become white gold, both iodized and canning salt would be valuable. Some entrepreneur would find a way to import for trade from the coastal area.
Sugar is not as necessary and is overconsumed anyway. We would miss it but would survive without it.
Decided to dig a little deeper online and found some links I thought might help people here on the salt subject.
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=567#
https://www.crt.state.la.us/dataprojects/archaeology/virtualbooks/SALT/hist.htm
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=567#
https://www.crt.state.la.us/dataprojects/archaeology/virtualbooks/SALT/hist.htm
Sugar is wildly used in preservation and is obviously a winner when it comes to calorie density.
Also used in distillation to produce other commodities of value.
Yep, which has all sorts of medicinal uses.
