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Question About Acorn Flour
On my “Lets talk about pecan trees” video on Youtube, ArboriusOwns posted an interesting comment.
I would love to see a video on how to make acorn flour if you have that knowledge in you bag of tricks. I kinda know but would love to see it done.
This question got the little wheels in my head to spinning. For a disaster to be so bad that people are eating acorns, there would have to be a total collapse of society.
During outbreaks of the plague in the middle ages, so many farmers and merchants died, that an untold number of people in the cities starved to death. There was nobody to grow the food, there was nobody to transport the food, there was nobody to sell the food. People were eating the grass in the fields. Parents were killing children to eat them, children were killing parents to eat them. There are even stories of people digging up dead bodies to tear the flesh off the bones.
Our modern day food production system is very fragile. Just a couple of events could have a very negative impact of society – but hopefully not as bad as what the Black Death had.