Humans have been able to survive and advance through the millenniums because of their minds. The ability to think and solve complex problems along with organizational skills has allowed humans to survive. Once people began to use their minds to develop machinery, physical strength did not mean as much, machines helped to do the heavy lifting.
You may not realize it now as you take a meal out of the freezer to slide into the oven that during a crisis all meals must be made by you, by hand from whatever raw ingredients are available. Poor cooking skills and not realizing the dangers of raw foods can endanger you and your family. It is incumbent upon you to learn how to process raw foods such as chicken, beef and other animals. Survival reality shows, for drama, may show a survivalist eating raw game or even fish with no apparent side effects. Wild game, fish and farm animals such as chicken and beef do contain parasites, bacteria and in some cases pathogens that can make you sick or even worse. The animals/wild game must be processed after the kill properly, and then the meat must be made ready for preservation and then be cooked in such a manner that all bacteria and parasites are destroyed. Cooking skills are vital.
You may only have yourself and family to depend on. Your tools may only be ones you can make yourself. This is where a need is identified and a tool or product is invented to meet that need. This is humans thinking and moving forward.
Some people are preparing for the worst, convinced the world tomorrow will be changed forever. They believe everyone will have to develop their own food sources, by planting gardens, and raising stock. To survive families will have to learn how to can vegetables and preserve fruits. Grocery stores in some people's minds will be nothing more than a fading memory. If you cannot raise or build it, you may have to do without it. Many will soon realize what is necessary for survival and what is not. It will take skill and knowledge to develop food supplies; you must learn how to harvest seeds to carry over for the next growing season. You will have to look to the sky to provide you the rain and sunshine for your crops to survive; you will learn how to read nature.
Water is not negotiable you will need a reliable, renewable source to survive. Either you must dig a well or settle next to a lake or large enough body of water where running dry is not an issue. You must know how to gather the water and make it safe for drinking and cooking. Water cannot be taken for granted and it must always be a priority.
Once, you have knowledge you must know how to make it work for you. Apply what you know now by improving on your home, making it ready for the day where electricity is just a fantasy. You can practice by cooking outdoors for a few days to learn basic open fire cooking. Gather some gardening supplies and start tilling up a small plot for a garden. There is great pleasure and pride when you can harvest foods that you have grown yourself.
Letting the situation get the best of you is harmful. You must rely on your knowledge and training and have confidence in what you know. Thrashing blindly about when you do not have the answers is counterproductive. Practice your skills and reason your way through every problem.
You may not realize it now as you take a meal out of the freezer to slide into the oven that during a crisis all meals must be made by you, by hand from whatever raw ingredients are available. Poor cooking skills and not realizing the dangers of raw foods can endanger you and your family. It is incumbent upon you to learn how to process raw foods such as chicken, beef and other animals. Survival reality shows, for drama, may show a survivalist eating raw game or even fish with no apparent side effects. Wild game, fish and farm animals such as chicken and beef do contain parasites, bacteria and in some cases pathogens that can make you sick or even worse. The animals/wild game must be processed after the kill properly, and then the meat must be made ready for preservation and then be cooked in such a manner that all bacteria and parasites are destroyed. Cooking skills are vital.
You may only have yourself and family to depend on. Your tools may only be ones you can make yourself. This is where a need is identified and a tool or product is invented to meet that need. This is humans thinking and moving forward.
Some people are preparing for the worst, convinced the world tomorrow will be changed forever. They believe everyone will have to develop their own food sources, by planting gardens, and raising stock. To survive families will have to learn how to can vegetables and preserve fruits. Grocery stores in some people's minds will be nothing more than a fading memory. If you cannot raise or build it, you may have to do without it. Many will soon realize what is necessary for survival and what is not. It will take skill and knowledge to develop food supplies; you must learn how to harvest seeds to carry over for the next growing season. You will have to look to the sky to provide you the rain and sunshine for your crops to survive; you will learn how to read nature.
Water is not negotiable you will need a reliable, renewable source to survive. Either you must dig a well or settle next to a lake or large enough body of water where running dry is not an issue. You must know how to gather the water and make it safe for drinking and cooking. Water cannot be taken for granted and it must always be a priority.
Once, you have knowledge you must know how to make it work for you. Apply what you know now by improving on your home, making it ready for the day where electricity is just a fantasy. You can practice by cooking outdoors for a few days to learn basic open fire cooking. Gather some gardening supplies and start tilling up a small plot for a garden. There is great pleasure and pride when you can harvest foods that you have grown yourself.
Letting the situation get the best of you is harmful. You must rely on your knowledge and training and have confidence in what you know. Thrashing blindly about when you do not have the answers is counterproductive. Practice your skills and reason your way through every problem.
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It is vital that you build your survival skills in case of a disaster by doing such things as building a bug-out bag. Doomsday preppers prepare these skills in case of long term catastrophes as a result of storms, earthquakes, floods and/or economic collapse.
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