Would you eat your pet cat?
I read this article to my pet cat, Sam. His response? A cold stare as if to say, "You unspeakable animal." As distasteful as it sounds in both meanings of the word, there are areas in our world where hunger is such that pet cats are consumed as food. If we're hungry enough, we'll eat anything, including each other. In many parts of the world, hunger is a daily ordeal. In the developed world, we look at this practice as pitiful and disgusting - until our food supplies run out. Even if you or I are well prepared for a disaster, food and especially water supplies are limited. I remember reading one estimate that in a power failure a community will run out of drinking water as soon as the municipal water system runs dry in a day or two. Food supplies will last a bit longer, in most communities between three and seven days. And then what? Survival of the most willing to do what must be done to survive? Probably. I doubt ...