You don't need anything but meat to survive
“To the best of my estimate, then, I lived in the Arctic for more than five years exclusively on meat and water.”
Contrary to the general believe, you don’t need veggies or fruits to survive in northern Canada. Shocking, for most people used to the Standard American Diet.
At least, this is what history books tell us. Many Inuits lived on the organs and flesh of caribous and whales for millennia. A century ago, Vilhjalmur Stefansson-a Canadian-born American explorer tried to live on meat alone for two years. He compiled his finding in his famous book, Not By Bread Alone. Here’s a series of recommended book on this topic.
The People of The Deer by Farley Mowat
Not By Bread Alone by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
My Life with the Eskimo by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
End-of-Earth People: The Arctic Sahtu Dene by Bern Will Brown
Prisoner of the North by Pierre Berton
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Eat Dirt by Dr. Josh Axe
Eat Rich, Live Long, by Ivor Cummins
Fat Chance, by Robert Lusing
The Hacking of The American Mind, by Robert Lusing
The Mind Gut Connection, by Emeran Mayer
Primal Endurance, by Mark Sisson
Pemmican seems to be the ultimate backpacking food for those needing to endure years of northern living. Pemmican was so valued that it even lead to a major war –The Pemmican War– two centuries ago.
You don’t need sugar, MREs, veggies, fruits, flour, molasses, coffee, bacon and beans to survive the Canadian arctic. Only organs and meat. Or at least, this is what the Inuits or Eskimos did for millenias’s.
Happy reading!
JP