Just to let you all know, if you're ever anywhere with me and there's a terrible accident and I die and you have to eat me to survive - feel free to tuck in!!
Not sure I can recommend bits not to eat.
I've always thought that thumbs would make a nice appetisers, they look a bit like a chicken drumsticks.
I've always thought that thumbs would make a nice appetisers, they look a bit like a chicken drumsticks.
I don't believe in an afterlife or that theres an angel to keep me safe so I'd be only relying on myself to survive. I'd like to think I'd do whatevers necessary to stay alive. Look at any wild animal and it will go to huge measures to survive. We have that instinct in us too but for some it can be hard to find.
I'm thinking of adding that phrase to my donor carddommyracer said:
.I think I'd do quite poorly in an emergency situation as I'd probably be waiting for
someone to take charge. So I expect I'd be toast!
"Long pork is New Guinea pidgin-speak for human meat, because of the long
bones. I've never eaten it, but if I was hungry I would eat you. Someone said
that to me once. I pointed out I'd be more useful alive." Ray Mears
He knocked himself off my list of "people I'd want around if stranded on a desert
island" with that one
what about having a draw and eating each others legs?
after all they can do wonders with titanium nowadays and you save a fortune on shoes, socks and athletes foot cream
after all they can do wonders with titanium nowadays and you save a fortune on shoes, socks and athletes foot cream
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eddie brann
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no one knows how far they will go until they are placed in tha situation but to protect your family is strong and the wont to live also i would like to belive if i had 2 i would do WHAT EVER it took to survive
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Very generous to offer but we will have to face your family after and say "yeah good bloke he was. He was really good with ketchup and chilli. Want some jerky you know it is how he'd like to remembered" I know I couldn't do it. I would do some pretty mean things to survive but not that. I could not live with those thoughts being played back in my mind.dommyracer said:
is there a nutritional value index for bushcrafters then?
I mean rabbits are tasty but you can stuff your face with em and still starve to death long term
its a good survival discussion and frequents many a campfire chat. Unless trapped on a mountain in sub zero temperatures though you would need to make your decision fairly quick regards cadavers as they will spoil. In which case should you gut and drain any casualties to improve the flavour or smoke the corpse so it lasts longer while you decide
I mean rabbits are tasty but you can stuff your face with em and still starve to death long term
its a good survival discussion and frequents many a campfire chat. Unless trapped on a mountain in sub zero temperatures though you would need to make your decision fairly quick regards cadavers as they will spoil. In which case should you gut and drain any casualties to improve the flavour or smoke the corpse so it lasts longer while you decide
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Old Timer
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Hmmm...
(I'm hoping I'll see a tiny glimpse of what this might mean during my Journeyman course next year. It will certainly test areas of my being that I've never explored in detail!!!
Can I let you know October 2008?!!?)
I wouldn't set too much store by the Journeyman course Phil. I did it 4/5 years ago. With hindsight, I think I could have used the money more wisely.
I have no qualms about eating meat, so a dead person really isnt that much different, if things are really that bad the chances are your just putting off the inevitable though, not too many places that are that remote nowadays with modern technology (unfortunatly).
I can see how vegetarians can pass up on meat, if you couldnt stair it in the face then murder it then you shouldnt eat it, maybe the same rule should be applied in this situation? where's the favor beans and the chianti:sulkoff:
I can see how vegetarians can pass up on meat, if you couldnt stair it in the face then murder it then you shouldnt eat it, maybe the same rule should be applied in this situation? where's the favor beans and the chianti:sulkoff:
In a real survival situation, I have no idea how far I'd go, and I have absolutely no intention of finding out either.
I do know, however, that when you have almost no food to last you for the next week, it is very difficult to ration it, to decide whether to eat less earlier so that you live off your fat stores, or to eat more earlier to give you the energy to go out and find food and ways of preparing it. It's also difficult to stick to whatever rations you decide on, and it's very easy to think up rational arguments for eating more now rather than later. It is also difficult to force yourself to go through with an entire test for a wild food you are mostly convinced is safe but you may have misidentified, because given that you're fairly sure, you just want to eat it now rather than waiting ages for a bad reaction.
And very importantly, when you're not eating properly, your brain slows down a lot, and you can make some very poor decisions. Even if you notice that this has happened, it is still difficult to force yourself to think things over for so much longer than usual before making the decision, and you probably won't think of all the things you ought.
I do know, however, that when you have almost no food to last you for the next week, it is very difficult to ration it, to decide whether to eat less earlier so that you live off your fat stores, or to eat more earlier to give you the energy to go out and find food and ways of preparing it. It's also difficult to stick to whatever rations you decide on, and it's very easy to think up rational arguments for eating more now rather than later. It is also difficult to force yourself to go through with an entire test for a wild food you are mostly convinced is safe but you may have misidentified, because given that you're fairly sure, you just want to eat it now rather than waiting ages for a bad reaction.
And very importantly, when you're not eating properly, your brain slows down a lot, and you can make some very poor decisions. Even if you notice that this has happened, it is still difficult to force yourself to think things over for so much longer than usual before making the decision, and you probably won't think of all the things you ought.
..."Long pork is New Guinea pidgin-speak for human meat, because of the long bones. I've never eaten it, but if I was hungry I would eat you. Someone said that to me once. I pointed out I'd be more useful alive." Ray Mears
He knocked himself off my list of "people I'd want around if stranded on a desert
island" with that one
Yeah, I see your point, Jodie, but you can't deny those are the carefully chosen words of a pragmatic survivor. It's 'win-win' point of view
Best regards,
Paul.
Yes but unfortunately there are a few good meals on me so I don't think I'd be
participating very actively in that particular win-win situation
participating very actively in that particular win-win situation
I would be prepared to do most things in a survival situation, but eat another human? Not sure I could do that. However, as others have said you wouldnt know unless it happened....
I'm not sure I could kill someone and eat them but if they (tragically and unfortunately)
died I might steel my nerve sufficiently to bring out the good china.
died I might steel my nerve sufficiently to bring out the good china.
