Savage in the Wild: Episode 14 - Wild Food Summit III

[charronfamilyconnect]

Hey Sam, I saw your comment on amazon about the book entitled, "the emperor wears no clothes". I guess you really meant what you said huh? I thought hemp was a good plant if used properly but you seem to totally agree with the villification of this plant. What is so wrong with the potential uses of Hemp man? I by the way dont believe in smoking the marijauna variety of it. I bought two of your books by the way and enjoy it. I just wonder why you knock Jack Herer so much & dismiss him as a dope?

[sutrar]

Concerning the eggs I talked about proteins, not calories...

[sutrar]

There are two many people to sustain everyone no matter how hard everyone tries. It may be hard to hear, or hard to accept, but more than one half of the world's population will have to starve to death when the change comes... only the strongest and wisest will live - doesn't that sound familiar?

[ROBISDISTURBED]

Any good books on this subject ? please recommend thank you.

[LoveVanillaRose]

AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE

[Lettermark]

simple, direct, and totally sensible. We do need people who love nature, and who have an intimate relationship with it.

[peachey2021]

also can i ask where you got the music at the end of the video from? the native america music? please reply!

[peachey2021]

yeah right can you imagine MR. VIP or a stockbroker hunting and gathering their own food? i can see it now " eww i dont wanna touch that is has durt on it" lol i think that the upper class will be the first ones to die, just because they think its not the proper way to live they would rather ruin every thing than be productive and "world smart"

IMO.

[doctorariel]

Sam is really inspiring and explains the true potential for sustainable living through foraging and supporting local farmers. Wow! Well said!

[Khono]

But what I wanted to say about this video that it's more great info that I enjoyed listening to. I don't agree with it all, but it seems to be wiser than the vast majority of stuff I see/hear in the mainstream media. GJ!

[Tossdart]

Sustainability in a natural environment especially a cold one could not & cannot be achieved with the # of persons alive today. Shelter is the primary one. Can you imagine 6.5 billion persons creating natural shelters like Tipi, burning fuel, clothing themselves! Too much emphasize is placed on food in media. What most call survival gardening we call gardening. One family unit requires a lot of wood for a winter where I live! We would hunt the bush clean in days. That is the reality.

[ruzam3740]

Sam addressed that in his talk at 4:05. We already can not go on living the way we do with the amount of people we have on the earth.

[Tossdart]

Bill Mollison & others have shown though that a change in thinking toward agriculture could hold huge benefits for our planet. Especially with greening totally arid areas. if only people could stop having 9011 kids might help a bit to.

[Khono]

Tossdart: Give people security, such as food security, pension, etc, and you'll reduce the advantage it gives many people to have many children.

Brad Lancaster has ideas on using water efficiently in dry climates and it doesn't involve fighting against what's already there. I don't know what BIll Mollison's method is but the way you said "greening totally arid areas" kind of worries me.

[Khono]

Tossdart, there are many kinds of sustainable houses and it is not necessary to burn fuel in order to stay warm. I live in Ontario and I didn't use any heating last winter and had the windows open for fresh air much of the time. I did have stuff running like my comp, but it's certainly possible to do it without that stuff, too. Nothing froze (except the windows sometimes). Odd, I seem to recall replying to this message before but I don't see my reply... deleted!?

[Tossdart]

I'm not sure I understand the way you word. However have a look at my playlists, gardening & weather events. we commonly get -40to-45C & often windchills of - 70 to 80 C. Our gas bill is $200 monthly despite fueling with wood in a modern home & south windows. I made two points. One we are too many to live like Native Americans, it takes 40 hides to make a tipi! Much of the planet we made arid. Permaculture can help solve this. Yes education, proper housing, health... will lower birth rate

[Khono]

Living sustainably does not mean living the way first peoples did. There are triple pane windows out there that give about as much insulation value as a normally built insulating wall. Many houses do not properly insulate around windows and other openings. In fact, most houses I've lived in are very bad at this kind of stuff. Making a significant effort to maximize insulation (at reasonable costs) for all houses and getting people to wear warm clothes even inside would go a long way

[Khono]

would go a long way to helping us be sustainable. Lower birth rate wouldn't necessarily help. Typically, we consume as much as we can.  More people means apportioning the resources into smaller shares, but it does not guarantee less consumption. That part can get really complex and into politics... but what I can say, from my own experience, is that we could consume many times less energy if we modify our values just a little. Consuming less isn't "good for the economy", though.

[Tossdart]

Khona, go back to the video & my original comment. Also I'm not shutting my house so tight that my kids inhale more particles than they are now. This video is about going to roots. Glass panes require huge amounts of energy to produce. We can go on endlessly, I stand by my original comment. Within a short time of Echinacea being sought people picked it nearly out of existence. That is but a few, imagine 6.5 BILLION! Within 1 day all whitetail deer extinct. Every nut tree, fern! Tossdart

[Khono]

It's important to get fresh air into the house. A typical way to do this and keep the house warm (or cool) is to expose the incoming air to the outgoing air across a conductive surface (like ducts).

Yes, people, regardless what they're doing, tend to do things unsustainably, out of greed and apathy. That needs to change. This stuff needs to be change BEFORE a catastrophe so that we can educate people and get them used to sustainable living.

[sutrar]

@Tossdart I was lucky enough that my father got a girlfriend living in a village. I learned many things already. One simple chicken of ours makes an egg nearly every day. We have three of them and we are four. If you look at the daily recommended minimum dosage of proteins and check how much is in one egg, one chicken can supply nearly all protein to one human. Plus, we let the chickens roam free - they forage their food on their own most of the year and give us part of it in the form of eggs!

[Tossdart]

@sutrar Lol after 3 years I get this reply. Did you read my comment? Take it from me okay. I lived most of my natural life in the Northern Bush. One egg ehe so that is 70-90 calories. To live in north you will need 4000 unless you don't cut wood. As 8 months of the year there is nothing but freezing cold ice & snow & all garden, berries & such is harvested in but a few days one can almost say that for at least 11 months of a Northern bush year is meat alone! Not to mention clothes! 6.5 B.

[Tossdart]

@sutrar Just so you understand I'm all for permaculture & using up mono culture land so forth. I am just commenting on your thoughts about 6.5 billion currently naturally foraging. We can't even walk in a park without wrecking it. Also to put a hunter gatherer life style into perspective for you I mention the North. The truth now is not even in the middle. Certainly permaculture within cities is a good thing so forth but you said everybody natural harvesting. No way trampled & depleted.

[sutrar]

@sutrar Regarding the eggs, I was talking about the daily dose of PROTEINS, not calories! The so important thing about that is, that while calories (needed as fuel for our body) can be supplied in many ways using plants only (sugars, carbohydrates like starch...) , we need animal PROTEINS to allow our body to repair and maintain its tissues using them as building blocks. Eating 1-2 eggs daily does give us all the needed PROTEINS so we don't have to waist CALORIES for chasing after animals...