Food Storage

[creekster]

Originally Posted by BigFatMeanie

Hmm, maybe we will need to rely on our food storage after all:

Some fear debut of powerful atom-smasher

The doos day scenarios do seem far fetched, but the lead guys pithy "If I was worried I would be far away from here" attitude isn't comforting. It's like that guy whose last words are "don't worry, it's not loaded."

[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I'm guessing LDS leadership talks a lot more about the necessity of food storage than about the need for higher education for men and women in order to be marketable in the workplace be able to fend for yourself and provide for your children watever your gender, or about frugality and saving.

I bet they tell you wine and coffee are forbidden, but don't say a word about those corn syrup laden colored drinks that have helped bring on the diabetes epidemic, or the dangers of artificial sweetners.

They are always so up to date and relevant in their advice. I noticed how Hinkley cited the OT story of Joseph and his brothers and the famine in Egypt as an illustration of the necessity of food storage.

You're dead wrong on this one. "Obtain as much education as possible" is an the oft repeated mantra among the youth. Stop guessing.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by jay santos

This is about last on my list on things I'm not doing in my life that I need to repent for and change.


1. Major pain in the ass purchasing, storing, rotating.
2. Living off food storage for a few weeks is barely a more favorable outcome in my eyes than starving to death.
3. Expensive--or at least not without any expense.
4. When's the last time someone you know has starved to death?
5. The only situations I can imagine where food storage would be beneficial are situations where food storage would be only marginally beneficial. As in, food prices temporarily spike and having a food storage would save me some of my savings.
6. I don't have a gun to protect my food storage in the event of a major world catastrophe. MW types will end up with my food storage anyway.

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[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

If there is a flu pandemic, there will likely be millions of Americans who die.

What do you think will happen to commerce in a flu pandemic?

Experts are wringing their hands about a pandemic and it is on the FRONT-BURNER.

You leave your home to get food and return home, and your entire family dies. It is not science fiction. It is the history of the world.

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[MikeWaters]

We now have one of the largest cities in the world, citizens paralyzed with fear, not leaviing their homes, for fear of illness and death.

I pray it is not serious, I pray it will end.