The Ultimate Meat Processing Charts for Preppers

By Sarah Hamelman

May 13, 2019 08:06

As a prepper it is important to be able to raise your own food. This includes raising livestock and processing their meat. Some of the most common type of livestock to raise and process are pigs, beef, lamb, and goat. Most of the animals are processed the same in the beginning, from culling to hanging them.

To begin you will need to cut the carcass in half. Use a bone saw and…

39 Items You Can Compost

By April K.

May 14, 2019 06:42

There are excellent reasons why you should make compost at home instead of throwing away your rubbish. Finding space for landfills is becoming a worldwide challenge, and throwing away rubbish that could become compost is like throwing away money.

Compost is an essential ingredient of a healthy garden. During the composting process, decaying material releases nutrients in a form that plants can absorb. If…

A Punakaiki-based scientist has come up with a new theory on the cause of the hole in the ozone layer.

Bill Hartley believes Starfish Prime, an American upper atmospheric nuclear test he witnessed in 1962, is partly to blame for the hole.

He was 12 and living in Westport when he saw a huge ball of light with rays coming out of it in the sky to the north.

"The light show was something unearthly and huge. For fun some weeks before, I had…

https://needtoknow.news/2019/05/four-rhode-island-towns-declare-2nd-amendment-sanctuary/

By Anna Von Reitz

The persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near "genocide" levels, according to a report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

The review, led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution.

Christians were the most persecuted religious…

Jew-friendly law axes

free speech for students

As an outcry over Florida’s new censorship law sweeps across the nation, the state’s students prepare for the dilemma of facing racism charges if they say anything negative about Jews or Israel.

The bill passed by the Florida Senate this week mandates students adhere to the severe…

Robert Sapolsky, Neuroscientist

Notice he mentions casinos (I've never went in one,  it seems insane to me). The anticipation of reward is where the dopamine shot is delivered, not when the reward is given.  It must be a hard-wired algorithm meant to get us to reach beyond our grasp. Perhaps good for the survival of the group, if not the individual, especially in hard times. I disagree with him on…

Slavoj Zizek - Big Think Video

He has an (amusing) point. Reminds me of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi's quote, "Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend."

What exactly are we here to do? It seems like as soon as we…