IRGIN VIEWS by IRGINIA

SURVIVAL II

FOOD

Well, you didn't kick and squirm too much about my editorial in No. 82 -in fact you didn't complain at all by which I mean no one wrote in and said that I should not have done it. The only letter I got about it was favorable and thanked me for doing it and for pointing out what I (and she) considered to be important. So if you don't fight back you get more of the same, namely this article, but I guarantee that I won't do it again next time.

Seriously, there is a corollary area to what I wrote about last time. which was economic survival. I'd like to say a bit this time about literally biological survival - staying alive. Everybody takes that for granted, and figures that only old age, cancer or a heart attack will carry them off. Unfortunately there are a lot of non-medical conditions to think about such as a freeway abutement or being run over as a pedestrian, etc. I'm not concerned with accidental deaths like that. I'm thinking of the oldest fashioned way there is, namely partial or total starvation. Now before you say that is ridiculous let me hasten to add that I don't think any of you are literally going to starve to death, but I do think there is a reasonable possibility that you may get pretty hungry.

You will reject that out of hand because you are all used to going to the supermarket a couple of times a week and picking up whatever you need in the line of food. Of course you complain a bit about the price of beef, milk, sugar and other things, but at least they are on the shelves if you have the money. But think a minute about what it would be like, and I'm going to be so bold as to say, very well may be like if you go to the store and don't find what you need! Perhaps even not some of the substitutes you expect to be there. It's a possibility

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