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by barry-cotter 1869 days ago
> I don't see how cities deal when they can't refrigerate food and the supply chain is interrupted.

A large majority of people, including all but the youngest children in the developed world are healthy enough to survive just fine on zero calories for a week as long as they have clean water. You wouldn’t have zero calories and that’s probably enough time to start milling animal feed corn and processing other animal feed into something edible by humans. The developed world is well capable of feeding itself even in very bad situations. This is a coordination problem and in catastrophes people do not turn into locusts. They pull together. See WW2 in all combatant nations. I’d expect high mortality among the very young, very old and very sick and well over 90% survival rates four most of the developed world besides those groups.

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Americans eating animal feed corn in the cities? I must be missing something here. I don't think I've ever seen animal feed corn in my life.