How much to plant to feed yourself
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You can't live off carbohydrates alone. You can starve with them.
Human body needs protein to repair and run essential biochem reactions.
PO TA TOES
Also, chickens. Eggs are amazing. They eat bugs and pests. And when they stop laying eggs you can send them to the butcher.
Chicken and eggs are nature's amazing gifts. Eggs near perfect amino profile, great fats and choline.
Potatoes not so much. Lacking in protein, methionine and cysteine. Just basically carbs and limited amount of vits and minerals.
Read up on potato famine.
Potato famine is nonsense. It really didn't historically happen like that. They starved them out. Literally transported the food out of Ireland causing famine. The potatoes were a historical excuse for what actually occurred.
Probably similar to today. Big huge excuse. The global Ukraine, famine? Prices soaring easier to blame on something. But what's that reality. They cut their own wrists. Because they want to adopt different regulations, supply lines, and structure.
I agree, but you miss the point: potatoes were NOT enough to feed the Irish. They didn't have protein and fats to feed themselves. Potatoes alone don't cut it.
Legumes?
Too low protein content, not full amino acid profile have lots of phytates, lectins and anti-nutrients.
Better than nothing. Survival food.