Teaching SURVIVAL:

Looking recently at my emergency gear set me to thinking about TEACHERS.

Who today teaches our kids about the basic skills needed to survive? .. I guess the short answer is 'nobody'.

I'm thinking this way .. IF (WHEN) the water doesn't flow when you use the tap/faucet - if you flick the power switch but there's no electricity - you pick up the phone but there's no signal so you can't fault-report to the supply company.

 Your tablet screen lights-up on the battery but the screen is blank. The supermarket is locked in darkness & so too is the EFTPOS 'hole-in-the-wall' machine. Cards are useless but smelly sewage is bubbling up and running down the road.

Your kids are an hour's drive away but you need gas and the pumps are out ...

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Darfield 4th September 2010

 Christchurch 22nd February 2011

  Kaikoura 14th November 2016

THREE DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKES

- AND We Are Still Waiting For THE BIG ONE.

It gets BASIC very fast and we all soon need the same stuff .. Shelter-Heating-Food & Water .. Transport-Security-Medical Care. - If you've got some and "they" don't .. but they want it now, - you have a problem. However - there is much more to long term survival than US style stacking boxes of ammunition in a garage with a selection of AR15s on top.

My mind boggles but there are some who get their meals from Burger joints, Chippies,  KFC palaces, Hot Dogs** or maybe frozen pizzas .. when they are open.

 - Isn't EDUCATION meant to prepare young people for life?

I'm told that there are kids who don't know that a 'shake' comes from cows udders or that a burger is some of a ground-up dead cow's corpse - that bacon is a salty flavored slice off a dead pig. - That they don't eat veggies unless they're hidden some way. They and their responsible adults will be useless.

- If you tried to demonstrate how to kill and cook a chicken they'd need counselling & calming medication.

Has anyone shown these folk how to make a meal from raw materials? - How to kill & clean a rabbit? - How to dig a potato? - that fruit grows on trees - not shrink wrapped in plastic trays?

Preppers debate which caliber is right for inclusion in their 'Bug-Out' bag - but where are you buggering off to if the whole place for 100 kilometers in every direction is in ruins?

"Drop, Cover, Hold" is decent advice for both Earthquakes and Nuclear Warfare - but then what?

Marty K.
Note: I just remembered that there are 2x "wind-up torches" in the car that seem to work .. and a useless 'wind-up radio' in the office that just hisses & crackles a bit.

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** HOT DOG & Chicken Nuggets "Meat" - Pick up a package of franks, and the first few items on the ingredient list generally include some combination of mechanically separated turkey, chicken, pork, and/or beef. According to the USDA, mechanically separated poultry is actually "any product resulting from the mechanical separation and removal of most of the bone from attached skeletal muscle and other tissue of poultry carcasses and parts of carcasses that has a paste-like form and consistency.”
 (Yum?) This paste generally contains a higher content of bone fragments than actual meat. To cut down on the risk of foodborne illness, hot dogs can contain no more than 20 percent of pork prepared in this manner, while mechanically separated beef is completely outlawed in the U.S. Fortunately for food-paste aficionados, companies can pump as much mechanically separated poultry into their hot dogs as they like! The rest of the hot dog’s meat (usually less than 50 percent) is generally regular pork and beef - Fillers, Salt, Preservatives & Flavorings.

Mechanically Recovered Poultry.

Mechanically Recovered Meat: The process entails pureeing or grinding the carcass left after the manual removal of meat from the bones and then forcing that slurry through a sieve under pressure. This puree includes bone, bone marrow, skin, nerves, blood vessels, and the scraps of meat remaining on the bones. The resulting product is a blend primarily consisting of tissues not generally considered meat along with a much smaller amount of actual meat (muscle tissue).

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