Posted on 02/24/2018 10:26:29 AM PST by blam
Those who are unfamiliar with Venezuela’s unprecedented economic collapse might be surprised to learn that the country’s oil production has only slowed, even as the price of a barrel of crude has risen in most international markets.
Unsurprisingly (it’s Venezuela), there’s a macabre explanation for this phenomenon: The workers at PDVSA – Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, which once showered Venezuelans with oil wealth – are literally collapsing due to hunger and exhaustion as workers defy their government handlers and flee their jobs in their desperation as the value of their pay has been completely erased.
Bloomberg spoke with several workers in Venezuela’s oil industry about the harsh conditions they face on a daily basis.
Of course, oil workers aren’t the only ones suffering: The situation in Venezuela is getting so dire that ordinary Venezuelans are losing tons of body weight because of the food shortages. Many can no longer afford to buy meat.
One worker told Bloomberg about how his weekly salary barely pays for the corn flour he mixes with water and drinks every morning.
At 6:40 a.m., Pablo Ruiz squats at the gate of a decaying refinery in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, steeling himself for eight Sisyphean hours of brushing anti-rust paint onto pipes under a burning sun. For breakfast, the 55-year-old drank corn-flour water.
Ruiz’s weekly salary of 110,000 bolivares — about 50 cents at the black-market exchange rate — buys him less than a kilo of corn meal or rice. His only protein comes from 170 grams of canned tuna included in a food box the government provides to low-income families. It shows up every 45 days or so.
“I haven’t eaten meat for two months,” he said. “The last time I did, I spent my whole week’s salary on a chicken meal.”
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Perhaps you can enlighten us, since many of us would not know how to subsist on a sudden, strictly vegetarian diet.
I speak of it as I am admittedly, ignorant of complete proteins as a vegetarian; and I am willing to learn.
Could you provide a brief article, or, even refer us to a reliable source for further information ?
I am sure that there are others here who would like to learn more (even lurkers), even those who don't intend to follow the vegetarian lifestyle
but are interested in family survival during a food crisis caused by economic, political, warfare, natural catastrophe, or sudden homelessness.
I value your insight ...
I can only speak of the ones that have opened up to me.....and sad to say they feel hopeless.
Here’s a short version, since I have studied nutrition (on my own, not in any educational institution) and worked as a cook (and cooked for a small private school, retreats, large groups, etc) with focus on nutrition and good taste, and written up many recipes of my own, with a focus on good taste, cheap as well as good protein... and with ingredients one can store as preps....maybe I should do a thread.
Short version:
Wide variety of beans and grains, also seeds and nuts in lesser quantities, and some milk products, easily gives complete protein needs, and not necessary to have them all at one meal; spread out is fine. Getting protein this way also gives more rounded vitamins and minerals.
If you think there would be some interest in a thread about this, I would be glad to start one, related to prep-ness.
Change the name to Veganzuela.
I’d be interested as well.
It may not be something many CHOOSE to do, but there may reach the point where the choice is taken from us and it’s something we NEED to do.
And keeping up a good diet that is adequate nutritionally can and probably will be in many cases, the difference between life and death.My only suggestion to those prepper types is to make a hard copy of it.
Anything stored on the computer is going to be useless if the power isn’t there to access it.
“Adequate Prepper skills should include & familiarize yourself on how to preserve meat: smoking, brineing, salting, canning, sun-dried, freezing (in winter) etc...”
All good to know, but we need to get the meat first!
We moved to rural Tennessee with the Cherokee National Forest right at the end of the holler. Lots of deer in there. Our neighbor is retired but is keeping his herd of Black Angus, because he’s ready for the collapse. I hope to barter with him.
I’m so happy we moved here! Part was calculated, but part was just dumb luck. Having great neighbors that are planning and thinking just like we are is part of that luck. I didn’t interview all the neighbors of the properties we were considering :)
Anyway, anybody looking to relocate, consider East Tennessee. It’s beautiful and is ‘behind’ the times. Which to me, means it’s paradise.
I was terrified to pressure can the first time. I bought a canner and looked at it for months. Then read the directions for another month.
Then I canned chicken the first time - and was hooked. I can things now just cuz I can ;) There’s a great feeling about having all that shelf-stable food handy. And I defy the USDA and can butter, bacon, and use tattler lids!!! Those are reusable lids, so will be great when things get tight, financially.
“Wide variety of beans and grains, also seeds and nuts in lesser quantities, and some milk products, easily gives complete protein needs, and not necessary to have them all at one meal; spread out is fine. Getting protein this way also gives more rounded vitamins and minerals.
If you think there would be some interest in a thread about this, I would be glad to start one, related to prep-ness.”
Please ping me to that thread!
Although I’m not a vegetarian, I have been studying this for a while and have been putting together beans and grains in my food storage to have protein available. I thought it was pretty neat when I found out they don’t have to be eaten together. I’ve been practicing with recipes but I’m sure you have them down pat! A recipe thread on this would be great too (I’m pinging JT here in case she wants to do something like this someday).
Okay, it looks as though this is a topic which would interest some people, especially in the prep department, as ingredients like beans are cheap and store well.
Maybe anyone else interested let me know and then when I start it I can ping ‘em.
Just so it’s clear - I am NOT a vegan and I HATE veganism, and it is NOT a sustainable diet, and there is no group of humans in the history of the world that was vegan. People can get along fine without meat but they have to have milk to have a complete diet. If someone is lactose intolerant, there is lactaid, and usually cultured milk products or cheese is digestible.
Just so that’s out of the way.
:-)
What should I title the thread? I don’t want to argue with people about meat, their choice, fine, not out to debate but just provide info which can be used by anyone whether they eat meat or not. Few people eat nothing but meat!
I would welcome such a thread or articles, as would others, especially the Preppers who grow much of their own food in their garden.
But I need to warn you that there are others (and lurkers) who may mock the vegetarian lifestyle; so you had better steel up your resistance to criticism.
There are many who would like to learn and prepare before their own established values and lifestyles are challenged.
Knowledge is power ; willful ignorance is folly.
Incidentally, as the population greys and ages, there are a number of Preppers who have to modify diets, due to developing allergies later in life, restricted diets, and
the frequency of older diabetics with Diabetes 2 is growing exponentially across the country.
Any nutritional information or suggestions can you make in that regard (Diabetes 2) would be appreciated by many here.
I do leftover turkey from Christmas and Thanksgiving and it's awesome for a nice pot of turkey soup when you get tired of the same ole same ole.
Tattler lids are great.
However, I do have quite a stock of regular Ball lids.
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton, 2004
There’s a cause for David Hogg and his shaved head friends after they forget about Cruz.
And yet when I point out to American Leftists that they would take us down the road Venezuela has travelled, they reply “that can’t happen under democratic socialism”. They are supremely ignorant of history generally (Nazi Germany comes to mind), and of Venezuela in particular (Chavez was elected).
Yep. Hey, Michael Mann, et al., come see what a low-carbon economy looks like. Just like Haiti!
So, how’s the fishing been in Venezuela?
Beans can be an issue for a lot of people if they aren’t used to eating a lot of them. I made myself very ill a couple of months ago, by making a big batch of refried black beans, and eating too much. Days of agony.
I would suggest that anybody trying to eat ‘vegetarian’ with beans as a mainstay should start very small, and find out how beans affect them. In areas where beans are a major part of the diet, folks have found ways to alleviate certain issues, such as including herbs like Epazote, q.v., or other additions that have similar effect.
Of course, the government really doesn't want you to do that-food is a weapon of control. Control the currency, and you control a nation. Control the food and you control the people.
This is what happens with economic collapse. This is what happens when a government runs out of other people's money.
This is what the NWO has planned for USA. Even if we drain the swamp, they have us so in debt, it will be a miracle, if we are able to stave off an economic collapse.
Just as a side note, the VP of Venezuela, is a drug dealer with ties to Syria, Russia, and Hezbollah. One of DJT's first acts after inauguration was to seize 5 of his properties in S. Florida.
Hezbollah is heavily involved in the narco/human trafficking in DWS District in Florida. AS a side note, Russia now has been helping Venezuela, with military assistance. When the current president there falls, Katy bar the door.
Do you believe decision makers, should not be responsible for their decisions?
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