Protien needs

[don heath]

On a previous threat there was alot of comment on how much protien people need- etc, not just starch.
 
We have run a child feeding scheme in a nearby tribal area since the 1960's. Corn meal is the staple food of the local people, but fat and protien are in short supply. We feed the kids two teaspoons of peanut butter every day- and for many that is their only source of protien until they are old enough to kill small game for themselves. Also provides enough oil for a person to synthesise the necessary hormones etc.
 
Some years ago the Seventh DAY Adventists began a wider feeding scheme using corn meal with 10% added soya flour. Brilliant- has saved thousands of kids but tastes different and the adults don't steal the kids food.
 
In brief- you don't need much!

[Pat/Rick]

 Good post! I really enjoy your experiences that you pass on to us. Thankyou for the lessons, I have learned alot.
 
Being spoiled in many ways we would have a tough time on those "meager" rations. We'd sure have time to develop other skills that the folks in the bush probably learned at an early age. Are they aware of how many people in the world don't have basic living skills? Cultural differences sure do vary.  What method(s) do the young use to procure small game? is it archery, traps/snares, or? 

[mannyrock]

 
Don,
 
   It seems to me that about 10 years ago, I saw a news show, regarding a "wonder" flour mix invented or used by Unicef or Feed the Children in Africa.  It was a combination of several flours, wheat, soy, corn, and it may have even had powdered milk blended in.  This mix, whatever it was, provided about 95% of what it took for people to stay healthy.  It had a funny "acronym" name.
 
   Any idea what this was?

  Also, I saw a show about two months ago, about how a couple thousand African desert bushmen still live in the wild, more or less in the same manner as they have for thousands of years.    They made their own small bows and arrows, and used a small insect or plant to produce a poison for the tips of their arrows, which they used for killing medium size game.    The statement made on this show was that if a total shutdown of modern society ever occurred, then these few Bushmen would be the only people on the planet who would be basically unaffected and could continue to go on with life as they always had.
 
Regards, Mannyrock

[don heath]

Kids use a catapault to kill small game , but they only start collecting the occasional 'lunch' from the age of 8 or so.
 
The soy corn mix and some rape (wild spinach) has fed a bunch of old people at the one mission station near here for the last 10 years. They get meat about once a year (when I shoot an elephant)