In times of an apocalypse, would you starve or just eat canned meat?

[Kathandira]

I'm teasing I'm good on supplies and location.

Damn, I was going to ask where I can sign up. I'm not going to just sit around waiting for someone to rob or kill me for my supplies!

[Donald Hellscream]

I'd eat dog or cat food if I had nothing else available and I was starving enough.

[Video Games]

I would just die from having no electricity or running water in a mater of hours X_X

[Sunseeker]

I actually kinda like vienna sausages.

So yeah I'd eat canned meat no problem. It'd get boring after a while but if the choice was between starvation and eating canned meat...I'd eat canned meat.

[Felicia]

I'm a type 1 Diabetic, aka insulin dependent (juvenile onset). I'd die eventually if something like zombies, fallout, or... a meteor ever happened. Insulin has a shelf life, and needs to be kept cold. It's also caused by an autoimmune disorder. I'd live off canned meat if I wasn't, you gotta do what you gotta do.

I know this sounds kind of funny. But I actually NEED to eat carbs because my body sees normal ketosis (like the keto diet) as DKA. My blood sugar spikes, and if there's no insulin. Well... it's a long, painful death. I think I can get away with a minimum of 100 carbs a day before I go into normal ketosis. It varies with each t1. Can safely follow a LOW carb diet so long as you're careful. I tried the least strict one and still went into ketosis. So I just avoid it. I'm also super sensitive to my insulin (like the anti- Type 2). Doesn't take much for me to correct carbs and highs.

[Deleted]

No. I would rather die than risk my health by eating food.

[Independent voter]

Vegetable garden.

Cow for milk and meat. Sheep for wool and cheese. Pigs for bacon. Etc.

[Kathandira]

Vegetable garden.

Cow for milk and meat. Sheep for wool and cheese. Pigs for bacon. Etc.

Pending on the disaster, all of that might be destroyed.

[ParanoiD84]

Vegetable garden.

Cow for milk and meat. Sheep for wool and cheese. Pigs for bacon. Etc.

You would need some security to, people would murder you for all that loot.

[Doctor Amadeus]

My Friends and I will be armed and waiting in our Vault for you. Hopefully, you'll already have hit a few other bunkers so we can take from you what you took from them.

So you're going to trap you and your friends in a vault lol guess that'll show me.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

So you're going to trap you and your friends in a vault lol guess that'll show me.

Who said anything about trapping ourselves?

[Doctor Amadeus]

Damn, I was going to ask where I can sign up. I'm not going to just sit around waiting for someone to rob or kill me for my supplies!

Lol nah better to have a hideaway than a bunker. And trust me in this hypothetical I'm sure plenty of raiders will be doing what I said.

[Wolfman31]

If you've ever been on the actual brink of starvation, you'll eat literally anything. Nothing changes human behavior more greatly than starvation.

[Independent voter]

You would need some security to, people would murder you for all that loot.

Naw, we're a tight community. If someone is hungry they'll get fed. Also all of us together about 2,000 people are more than enough to stop bandits.

[ParanoiD84]

Naw, we're a tight community. If someone is hungry they'll get fed. Also all of us together about 2,000 people are more than enough to stop bandits.

Sounds good

[Doctor Amadeus]

Who said anything about trapping ourselves?

You did or did you not think about that making your comment towards my joke. Yeah vaults can protect you if you're in them, not from what's not in them. Meaning AIR

[Deleted]

Pending on the disaster, all of that might be destroyed.

Then people are fucked royally.

My choice is same as Hubcap's choice above. Living in former USSR country there is no shortage of dachas (small house in remote location with vegetable garden), I'll easily find one to occupy or will drive to relative's dacha (better choice, but very long drive to other side of country so might not be possible) that is about 200 meters from Russian border. Unlike western houses, all dachas have vegetable gardens. It used to be a necessity in USSR times to grown our own vegetables, so everyone who could get one, got one and after fall of USSR they are still very popular.

[Khaza-R]

What a privileged ass thread lol

There are already millions of people in the third world who eat far worse than canned meat to survive

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

You did or did you not think about that making your comment towards my joke. Yeah vaults can protect you if you're in them, not from what's not in them. Meaning AIR

I was using Vault in the "Fallout" sense of the term.

[cubby]

Not even jesting but even though the threats have simmered down, my family has one of those underground bunkers stored with canned food and water. Shelves upon shelves of canned spam, "beef," and vienna sausages.

I never really looked into this much since it was their business, but I recently did some reading into the meat goods and found out they're what you call "mystery meat" no one eats other than out of desperation. Made out of animal ass and who knows what else?

I reeled knowing this but, hey, if the world was in something like WW3 or an apocalypse was happening, would you take the health risk and still eat this stuff anyway?

At the point where you are starving, bark would seem appetizing. Canned meat would be a gourmet feast.