Survival Preparedness:
Backyard Meat Rabbits

Why survival preparedness?

On July 13, 2010, The National Inflation Association (NIA) issued a press release reflecting their belief that hyperinflation may become a reality in America by 2015. According to the NIA, government debt coupled with price controls will eventually reduce the value of the US dollar to nearly nothing.

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If you wonder what hyperinflation might look like, this NIA YouTube video graphically illustrates the possibilities through a water shortage in Boston that occurred in May, 2010. While the Boston crisis resulted from a broken water main, the NIA believes a currency crisis will result in a similar panic however on a nationwide scale.

January 2011 Update
The news is worsening. Stansberry and Associates (S&A), a very credible financial research team based in Maryland, USA, is openly warning of an impending financial upheaval that could strike within the next two years, due to the massive US debt. Could life as we know it in America soon change forever? Stansberry thinks so.

Read it, or hear it, for yourself:
"End of America," Porter Stansberry interviewed
Stansberry & Associates Slide Presentation

Here's a couple snippets from the "End of America" interview:
"The U.S. dollar forms the basis of the world's economy. More than 60% of all the currency reserves in the world are U.S. dollars, so banks all around the world hold U.S. dollars in reserve ... The open question - and no one knows the answer to this - is what happens when the world reserve currency goes into hyperinflation, goes into de facto debt default? What are the consequences on the world? ... If all those [banks] want to dump those [dollars], there's going to be a very, very big problem in the world's currency market, where you could see the value of the dollar fall 50%, 70%, 80% very, very quickly as people panic to get out of the dollar."

Mr. Stansberry continues:
"I think that people have an instinct, a feeling, that something has gone wrong with government. They know in their hearts the government can't run enormous deficits forever and can't finance things like free medical care for the whole country. They know in their hearts this is unsustainable. So when I point out the actual details behind why it's unsustainable, I don't think people are that surprised by it."

And finally:
"It's going to get really, really ugly ... No one can know exactly what the outcome will be. So I think that taking certain precautions...is simply prudent. Whether you feel the same, of course, is up to you."

We're no experts, but we're taking this survival preparedness stuff just a little bit more seriously. We highly recommend you examine for yourself these warnings and recommendations.

Emergency Food Supply for Survival Preparedness

In 2003, it was labor unrest that prompted our decision to maintain a simple emergency food supply at the ready - rabbits in our backyard. At the time, five grocery chains had gone on strike at the same time throughout the region where we lived. The shelves in the local Albertson's grocery store were bare in no time.

Across town, the shelves at the only other grocery store were equally bare. The strike rumbled on for many months. At the time, we had no plan in place for survival preparedness, and no emergency food supply on hand.

The workers eventually returned to their jobs, but the refrain kept running in the back of my head: "...What if...? How would the town eat if the grocery store shelves completely emptied??" In a crisis, shelves can empty in a heartbeat. Even in America the time could very well arise when only those with a survival plan would survive.

We decided to incorporate live animals into our survival preparedness plan. Given the current sociological and political climate, we are even more sure that we made a wise decision.

Every domestic rabbit represents 1 meal for a family of four, plus a pot of stew. Each is also a defense against hunger in the face of interrupted income, food supply, or other threats to one's well-being. With a little bit of rabbit care, the meat "stores" very well on the live rabbit in its rabbit hutch.

Additionally, raising rabbits for meat leaves a very small ecological footprint. Unlike a cow, for example, it is easy to butcher one rabbit and use the entire animal without refrigeration. No need for electricity.

"Raising and Eating Rabbits in the Big City" -- This news story features three families on Nicollet Island in downtown Minneapolis who are partnering together to tend a vegetable garden and a ‘barnyard’ including rabbits, chickens, ducks and geese, all within a very modest space.

Yes, you can raise rabbits in the big city, and in the country, for survival preparedness, self-sufficiency and improved nutrition.

Rabbit farming does take a bit of education and know-how. But - that's why we're here. We'd like to help by sharing with you everything we know about raising rabbits for survival preparedness. Take your time and peruse Raising-Rabbits at length. Contact us with your questions, if necessary.

As you make your survival preparedness plans, don't forget your pets. Fresh raw rabbit meat, bones and liver makes a very healthy homemade pet food, or at least, home-grown, for our carnivore dogs and cats.

We sure hate to be so pessimistic! But, highly believable sources are themselves alarmed. Even if you feel like laughing us off, we hope you'll lay a few supplies in, and breed a couple extra does, JUST IN CASE. We are.

For lots more info on surviving TEOTWAWKI - the end of the world as we know it:

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How much land do you need to go off the grid??
This eye-opening article includes a large graphic that will spell it out for you...a total of roughly 2 acres; a bit more if you grow the corn that feeds the livestock.

Of particular interest is the contrast in acreage needed for growing vegetables vs. raising animals. To keep enough pigs, goats and chickens to feed one family for a year, you'll need 372 square feet.

To provide 9,200 calories a day for the same family of four for a year, you'll need 88,678 square feet, or 2.2 acres, just for a small wheat field and big veggie garden. Survival truly does require animal protein.

You could add rabbits to the mix with NO additional need for space. How? Put them in the space allotted to the chickens. The rabbits are in cages above, and the chickens roam below, cleaning up after the rabbits and consuming vermin and bugs. (Chickens are omnivores.) The manure from the rabbits enriches the garden, and the bedding from the chicken house can be used as mulch or added to the compost pile.

The entire arrangement is amazingly sustainable, the perfect 'green' solution to survival preparedness.

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