We are all nine meals from anarchy

[jeffrey]

The scenario goes like this. Imagine a sudden shutdown of oil supplies; a sudden collapse in the petrol that streams steadily through the pumps and so into the engines of the lorries which deliver our food around the country, stocking up the supermarket shelves as soon as any item runs out.

If the trucks stopped moving, we'd start to worry and we'd head out to the shops, cking up our larders. By the end of Day One, if there was still no petrol, the shelves would be looking pretty thin. Imagine, then, Day Two: your fourth, fifth and sixth meal. We'd be in a panic. Day three: still no petrol.

What then? With hunger pangs kicking in, and no notion of how long it might take for the supermarkets to restock, how long before those who hadn't stocked up began stealing from their neighbours? Or looting what they could get their hands on?

It was Lord Cameron's estimation that it would take just nine meals - three full days without food on supermarket shelves - before law and order started to break down, and British streets descended into chaos.

A far-fetched warning for a First World nation like Britain? Hardly. Because that's exactly what happened in the U.S. in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. People looted in order to feed themselves and their families.

Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a very real food crisis | Mail Online

[poundwise]

We are all nine meals from anarchy

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[Sporkman]

Originally Posted by poundwise

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Uh, that lifestyle relies on oil. 4-wheel drives & ammo deliveries stop when the oil flow stops.

[zakity]

Yeah, but what kind of a stockpile of ammo do they have?

[Sporkman]

Originally Posted by zakity

Yeah, but what kind of a stockpile of ammo do they have?

Not unlimited, I'm sure.

Also, the song talks about how they can hunt & fish, but I'm sure that for the majority of country folk, that's only an occasional activity, so it only amounts to a small portion of their diet. If they had to obtain 100% of their diet, then even given the sparser country population, I'd wager that game stocks would get deplete pretty quickly,

[zakity]

I grew up in a rural area back East. I know of several families that eat from what the guys hunt. That is the only meat they have except a few times a year when they might have something bought from the store.
Most of the time, they know the old ways of trapping and stuff.