(2 February 2013, 20:12)bigpaul Wrote: if we're talking about after TSHTF, which i assume we are-why would you bother hoarding vitamins otherwise-their in the shops right?
They're in the shops now. WTSHTF, will they still be there? Well, if you're willing to walk down after TSHTF and check it out, then by all means. But because it's not something you can guarantee, then it makes sense to stock up on it. Same as toilet paper, soap, tooth brushes, and stuff like that. Yes people are mostly dumb, but it only takes 1 person to empty the shelf....i.e. me.
(2 February 2013, 20:12)bigpaul Wrote: most of your vitamins come from fruit and veg, we started eating fruit cos we were hunter/gatherers and we collected any food that was available.
Fruit will be hard to come by. You're not going to find Florida Oranges growing by the side of the road. You're just as likely to find apples in winter as you are to find mammoths at any time of the year.
We have cultivated crops, however pathetically by modern standards for thousands of years. We actually led a very short time (relatively speaking as a race, and not just in lifespan) as pure hunter gatherers. When we lived like that, we weren't living in the colder climates we live in today. Vikings were not hunter-gatherers. Even back thousands of years, deep into living BC, society was mostly farmers and craftsmen. Go further back than ancient Greece, back to ancient China, Tibet, or places like that. We had many farms. Go back to Babylon, ancient Egypt, thousands of years BC....farmers.
The only places where hunter-gatherer communities did well were places where there was a good temperature year round. Jungles, and VERY specialised civilisations, like Australia, Arabic areas (but even they were farmers, moving their cattle through the deserts), the African bush. All places were harsh, but manageable, providing you moved around the country to places as of and where needed. Even native Americans used to move around to the areas. They'd also plant crops to come back to when they were leaving an area.
The hunter-gatherer idea is VERY hard to come by, and not possible as a long term (or even short term, a couple of years) living plan. At best I'd go with a hunter-gatherer society for 1 year. At a HUGE push, 2 years.
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