With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it's the plutocrats v life on Earth

[Kaleva]

19. Networking is very important IMHO

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Only a very few have the ability and means to go it alone for extended periods of time.

Thr people who say they have enough on hand to last them and their immediate family months or even a year or more will face starvation after their supplies run out.

It's almost an impossibility to be truly self sufficient and self sustaining. Vinegar, salt, canning lids, animal and chicken feed, vegetable seeds (unless one knows how to collect seeds for the following year), and such will run out at some point.

And it's important to keep in mind that much of the produce harvested from a garden is low in calories. Eating less then a thousand calories a day is starvation and we'll need much more then that to have the energy to work.

An average, healthy adult male needs roughly 2k calories a day or 730,000 calories a year. Does a person's homestead produce that much? Then one has to add the calorie needs of everyone else living there .

A pound of 85% lean beef has about 1137 calories. A little over half of what an adult male needs for a day.