06-30-2008, 03:25 PM | #11 |
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I can see Deseret Mills from my backyard of my house in Kaysville. So I figure they have plenty of food there. So I'm just going with armaments.
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06-30-2008, 03:29 PM | #12 |
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In a time when a lot of people will lose their jobs, and not be able to find work, food storage is invaluable. My former Bishop's family lived off their food storage for months, at least in supplementation when he was without work for almost a year (lawyer).
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I have noticed a shift in the church literature from 1-yr supply to a stepwise approach, i.e. 72-hr kit, then 3-month expense savings, then working towards food storage. This makes much more sense to me. However, my friend's ward just had a fireside on the subject put on by one of these survivalist kooks. His take was that 72-hr kits were a waste because we could go without essentials for 72 hours pretty easily (Never mind that 72 hours will get you through the VAST majority of disasters...). He then had a big list of things that everyone must have. I don't even remember the highlights as they were so ridiculous I didn't want to waste brain cells on them. |
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06-30-2008, 03:43 PM | #15 |
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LOL. More nuttiness.
Hoarding food in your basement, buying guns to protect your food in the event of pandemic illness or calamity, fear that everyone is going to be out to get you. So glad this is the smarter board.
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Food storage has been around a long time. Everytime we get into some economic trouble in the US or potential for a flu epidemic I hear people running around saying, see the Prophets have been warning us about this. Maybe people ought to look more to individual cases as to why the counsel and not that they are predicting major calamities right around the corner. |
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I thought this too, but in talking to a family who went through this, my mind was changed. She said by eating their food storage, the savings went WAY farther than they would have. Were they using savings for groceries, they likely would have kept buying the same expensive food, etc. they had always gotten, instead of eating for pennies on the dollar via food storage.
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Without further deliveries, it takes less than two weeks for a city to run out of food. |
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06-30-2008, 03:59 PM | #20 |
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A moral case could be made for NOT stockpiling food storage at this juncture.
By buying the food, you are increasing demand, and driving up prices. Already the very poor of the world are not able to afford food. So in effect, by not buying food, you are helping the very poor, and in a measure, mortagning your own family's life to help others. However, I know SU has no intention of sacrificing his family's life for another. But either way, that's the effect. |
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