Can you picture yourself eating rats to survive? Sounds crazy, but believe it or not there are countless examples of people doing just this.

This seems pretty far removed from a television set, a football game, and some steaks on the barbeque. But what would it take to get YOU there? The truth is it wouldn't take much. If you're like most people in America all of your subsistence needs, especially your food, come from someone or somewhere else. The ability to eat steak is made by the guy who is raising the cow and then selling the cow. I doubt many of you reading this have ever raised a cow—myself included. And considering the average American consumes nearly twice his or her weight in meat annually (Earth Times, July 1, 1998), I have no idea where I would find 500 pounds of red meat next year if the supply was cut off...

Here at DOOMSDAY SHOPPER we're primarily looking for ways to survive in some potential socio or economic crisis or collapase. Maybe not in a global calamity - like an asteroid impact or a nuclear war (because really who wants to survive after that happens?). But maybe some minor disaster which impacts the quality of the life you and I in civilized societies are so very accusstomed to. If there's some food shortages, or maybe an economic collapse and Walmart is out of Ring Dings.Or if we get in to some war with Iran and there's just a lot less food in the supermarket for this hungry American, the question becomes do I have a PLAN?...