a honest question to you vegans,, concerning a scenario like katrina..

ahh but i must see the rice an pilaf ingrediants... theres no butter,dried boullion,or dried milk in it??

 

?dried milk? what the hell would dried milk be doing in rice pilaf.....please leave the cooking to dilli....LOL

 

i wanna see the ingrediants damnitt!!

 

HaHa...wait I've been looking but can't find it. Are ya always this impatient?

 

http://www.vegparadise.com/news31.html


Black Bean and Rice Burrito
Calories 220
Total Fat 9g
Saturated Fat 2g
Calories from fat 80
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 560 mg
Total Carbohydrate 32g
Dietary Fiber 4g
Sugars 1g
Protein 6g (not a significant source of protein) INGREDIENTS: FLOUR TORTILLA [ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OIL WITH MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, BAKING POWDER, POTASSIUM SORBATE, SODIUM STEAROL, LACTYLATE, CALCIUM SULFATE], WATER, BLACK BEANS, RICE, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, GREEN PEPPERS, ONIONS, SPICES.

 

Crackers
Total Fat 5g
Saturated Fat 1g
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 130mg
Total Carbohydrate 28mg
Dietary Fiber 1g
Sugars less than 1g
Protein 4g

INGREDIENTS: WHEAT FLOUR, VEGETABLE SHORTENING, YEAST, CALCIUM CARBONATE, SALT, SODIUM BICARBONATE, EXTRACT OF MALTED BARLEY AND CORN.

**They forgot to list cardboard**

 

WOE IM WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO,,what do you reckin yer chances of gettin one of them made to order mre's in a disaster??/

honestly now..

 

If you go back to the site that you posted a link to earlier, I think I saw something about special orders....there should be an address & phone number also.

Did you get hit by the hurricane?

 

i wouldnt eat meat i'd hold out for 2 weeks ( ever done it for this long so i bet i can do it) , then die if possible... but until then lets say was in the Arctic or Antarctica and it was life and death and i had more to live for, i'd compromise and choose life and maybe eat a fish.
REad this book... The life of Pi... (i forgot the author)
i know this buddhist guy who did it for 48 days ( but he was prepared)

 

I'm going to be realistic here. I would eat the MRE's. I have my family to think about, and letting myself shrivel up and waste away would be just plain stupid. Letting yourself get weak like that opens you up to all kind of illnesses. And really, those people had no idea when they would be rescued. You can say in hindsight and by not even going through that disaster at all "well, it was only a week, I could last that long!" You have no idea how intense a survival situation like that is or when you'll get rescued. And seriously folks, you're going to trade 2 teensy little crackers for the main portion of your meal? I think not.

 

I love how people decide that whatever they would do is the only "realistic" thing, and the only thing any one would do.

 

I'm vegan, and if I was in that situation I don't think I'd eat it. Definitely not meat anyway. I mean you can survive for weeks without food anyways. If your in the situation where you haven't eaten for a week, meat would not be an advisable thing to start chewing on anyways. You'd probably vomit it up.

 

LOL I would eat the meat Man! Everyone would-most on here have never been starving to death or homeless--The Human Mind will do ANYTHING to survive even if it means eating you Man! Good thread!

Throw down all your
silver spoons - eat
all of the raw meat
with your hands.
Pick it up piece by piece
Pick it up piece by piece
Pick it up piece by piece

Where are the bodies
for dinner?
I want my food!

What if you were
starving to death and
they only food you had
was me - what would
you say to the cannibal
question? Would your
answer be perfectly
free?

Your mama told you never
to eat your friends
with your fingers and
hands, but I say you
ought to eat what
you will - shove it
in your mouth any way
that your can.

You think that I will come
to your mouth, looking for
a home. But I get stuck
sideways in your throat
like a good old chicken
bone.

Where are the bodies for dinner?
I want my food!
Stay out the kitchen children
The cook is cleaning his gun
He just got back from the open
markey - shooting his food on
the run.

Your mama told you never
to eat your friends
with your fingers and
hands, but I say you
ought to eat what
you will - shove it
in your mouth any way
that your can.

Sharpen your teeth for the
family feast - let all the
hungry drool roll down
your chin. Hide the human
and bring out the beast.
Let all the animal games begin!

Where are the bodies for dinner?
I want my food!
You could leave to dine on
your friends - pour their
bones into a cannibal soup
muscles like steak
blood like wine - save
the brains to feed to troops

Your mama told you never
to eat your friends
with your fingers and
hands, but I say you
ought to eat what
you will - shove it
in your mouth any way
that your can.

Scarlet juices ozing
slow - boiling in a
human sea.
Is it human dinner
you're talking about?
Then slice me tender
raw and lean
Where are the bodies
for dinner?
I want my food!

Oily fingers can hardly
wait - bodies slumped
face in plate
Wake up the drunks
the coffers on
the fourteenth course
has come and gone.

So long
all day sucker
your candy has
come and gone
and its left you
with your mouth
wide open.

Just humming
cannibal songs.

 

Um... we weren't talking about starving to death. If it was a choice between death and a MRE with meat in it I'd eat the MRE. I'd chow down on my team-mates, too, if we crashed in the mountains. But a few days? No, I wouldn't. Jeeze, what's a few days on just crackers?

 

yeah I too think the whole question was, would you eat meat to save your life?

 

It's easy for us to say what we would do now, as we are not in that situation. Honestly, I don't know what I'd do. I think I would *probably* eat the meat. But since I have never been forced to make such a decision, I can't tell you for sure what I'd do.

 

This same issue got brought up [sort of] on meat while travelling...

I stated my opinion but, you know what... who knows. It depends what my options were I suppose, if there was any sort of plant-derived foods available, I'd try and grab those before anything... I'd literally try and fill up off any sort of tree standing [the leaves] etc... but if there were no other options left then I suppose MAYBE I'd eat meat or animal products, it really depends....

I can't say, because I don't really know... Not just because I've never been in that situation, but also because I've had years of struggling with an eating disorder ...would it be so hard to let myself starve, or am I recovered to the point where I would find survivng more important? I really couldn't tell you; being put in that situation sure would show me, and test me... but, I don't know.

That's also not my only concern; Seeing everyone around me barely living would concern me more than myself. If my death meant helping even just one person live, because I gave them my food, I would die happy.

*Shrugs* I dont know... there are so many different ways it could go.

And please, nobody bash me for what I said, just exploring all the possibilities; I have a pretty different, eccentric way of looking at things, so I could easily see myself starving to death to save others, and the animals.

I know for a fact I wouldn't go cannibal or kill off any living creature for survival... some people would and some people wouldn't, and I'm one that wouldn't. Going extremely, agonizing hungry isn't really an issue for me, it's more based on everything else around me. Hell, I starved myself when food was readily available, how the hell do I know what I would do in a situation like THIS now days?

 

Happy early birthday

 

i must say im very impressed with how openminded most of you have been with this question,,....

Thank you for attempting to look at it logically rather than unrealistically..

Luv~N~Lite