around them, such that they cannot easily travel to the country side. Second, food will run out in the cities, such that the starving survivors look about them, and even at each other, hungrily. Most will starve, getting weaker
and sicker until death overtakes them. Those who give in to the urge to cannibalize will soon die also, simply
because the food source will run out. Thus, growing food in the cities is not a valid subject, as such an activity
won't exist.
Those in the suburbs, who have land about them and are perhaps conjoining the countryside, will at first deplete
their personal stores, the local food markets, and then begin roaming into the countryside. The family pets will
get killed and roasted, and that fat so much desired to be shed will be used just to keep the body going for many
months. Eventually, suburban families will need to learn to forage, turning over logs in the woods to look for
grubs and worms, and attempting to fish in streams or rivers. Catching small mammals such as rats, which eat
just about anything, will also be a food source children may catch, in their desperation, and may even eat raw if
the parents are dulled by madness. Earthworms can eat sewage, and rotting material, but this is not a voluminous
production, so should not be expected to feed a community from their own sewage. Thus, survival in the
suburbs, or growing food, will become a foraging practice by those able.
Those in the country, who farm, or are familiar with gardening and hunting practices, will take a different tack
from the start. The farmer with cattle will soon find that his cattle are getting thin, staggering about from hunger,
and will eat the herd to thin it out. Thus, the farmers in the area will finally conclude that certain animals are more useful than others, in the Aftertime. Chickens eat bugs, forage for themselves, and come home to lay their
eggs if given a safe and private roost. Ducks likewise eat whatever grows in or around ponds, which will be
numerous in the drizzle, and don't require a dry spot to roost. Goats, which eat anything, and pigs which root in
the ground for whatever might be edible, can likewise be kept within limits if the surrounding country can
sustain them. Some vegetation will struggle along, weeds which are hardy, and plants that grow in the gloom or
dim light normally. If the group had not researched and anticipated this environment, but find themselves
without seed or seedlings for dim light gardens, then they will be chewing on weeds for an alternative to grubs
and whatever they can catch to roast over a small evening fire. Farmers are naturally resourceful, being at the
lower rungs of the ladder in all supposedly civilized cultures, and will adapt. If a particular weed grows well,
proves to be edible, the farmer will husband this, grow it, protect it from wildlife, and sell it. Thus, growing food in the country is possible, depending upon the adaptability of the farmers in the area.
Coastal survivors will have access to harvest from the oceans. Fish will flourish in the oceans, so survival
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ZetaTalk: Starvation
communities on coastlines should relay upon this are a first resource. Those communities may tire of fish, so
experiment with seaweed recipes for variety, and go inland to trade with other communities who will value dried
or preserved fish. Inland, fish in the native ponds and riverways will likewise survive, but not in numbers greater
than the environment can sustain. What do these fish eat? Algae, duck weed, bugs that live on slime in the
waterways. All this is dependent somewhat on sunlight, as the base is vegetation in the waterways. Thus, native fish may actually be in reduced numbers if in gloomy areas, and be considered a prize when caught. For those
farmers turning to aquaculture, where plants can be grown in human sewage, and then fed to the fish or
livestock, this will prove to be a renewable resource that adds to the food banks. Here again, the key is light, as
to turn sewage into food, one needs plants that require at least some light.
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ZetaTalk: Best Nutrition
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ZetaTalk: Best Nutrition
Note: written Dec, 2002
Human nutrition, and alternative medicines such as herbs, is well enough understood by mankind that we can not
provide any new insights. In general, eating a balanced diet and eating food raw where it does not carry disease
provides the best nutrition. Small meals, eaten frequently, allows for better digestion. The starving body is more
efficient at digestion than the overfed, which tends to dispense with a big meal as something to be rid of rather than
processed. Humans who have been dictated to by their schools, medical profession, and salesmen for the food industry,
have often turned off their natural sensors as to what to eat and how to treat their bodies. Small children, left to pick and chose what to eat from an array of healthy foods, will invariably select a balanced diet over a period of days, and will chose those foods that help their particular metabolism or biology, even without having a medical degree or being directed to do so. If cold weather is approaching, foods that will put on a layer of fat are selected. In hot weather, a lighter diet of salads and fruits is more appealing. These natural signals, which go beyond diet and into health in
general, should be listened to. Go back to being a child, in listening to your body, which knows itself well!
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ZetaTalk: Seasons Shift
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The shift will find the seasons already in disarray. The weathers in the months leading up to the shift will be a
continuation, but in a more extreme way, of the current weather irregularities. Winters have been interrupted with
warm spells that have caused crops to sprout and bud, then freeze again when winter returns. Summers have been too
wet, with more rain in heavier deluges so the crops drown, then followed by dry spells that bake whatever manages to
grow. Plants struggle along, with these mixed signals, in general not dying so much as failing to produce the produce the farmers had anticipated. Animals likewise are confused, mating seasons off schedule and flight patterns of birds
such that they lose their way during annual migrations. Ocean life is arriving in latitudes not usual, the local life often dying or moving on, but this does not so much spell death in the species as some decimation. However, at the shift, these changes will become extreme, so that vegetation and animal life, in the skies and seas, will become decimated to the point that many will become extinct. Such devastation occurred to the hardy Mammoth, which found itself in the