Book:"Feeding everyone no matter what"

[germanforestgump]

Via the swiss survivalforum.ch i get a interesting book-tip:

David Denkenberger and Joshua Pearce:
"Feeding everyone no matter what - Managing Food Security after Global Catastrophe" (Academic Press, San Diego 2015):

http://www.appropedia.org/Feeding_Every ... atter_What

[Cererean]

I have that book.

Cows can digest cellulose. Perhaps their stomachs would have the bacteria we need to pre-digest woodchips to make them edible by ruminants? Of course we'd have to act fast, before they all get slaughtered for their meat... the feed conversion ratio for meat is a lot worse than for milk, and it takes quite a long time to breed the numbers back up.

Maybe we could also feed pre-digested wood to tilapia?

[Cererean]

Lo, we already know how to make sawdust into cattle feed.

The downside, of course, is that cows aren't rapid breeders. I think we'd have to pre-digest cellulose and use it as fish feed, or maybe rabbit and chicken feed. Broiler chickens reach slaughter size within 6 weeks, but they take 16 weeks to reach the point of laying eggs, so it'll take some time to build up the numbers to feed everyone.