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Could you eat your pet to survive?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) June 2nd, 2011

If you had to make a choice to starve to death or eat your pet, which would you do? Say, you (and one or two people close to you) were traveling to a remote and rugged location for an extended assignment of work or getaway where you can only fly in or hike nearly 5 days with pack animals during winter and plane goes down. Being it is a small plane, large enough for the pilot, co-pilot, 5 other people (6 others if 2 are children) and you. Most of all the supplies are already there waiting but you have an estimated 3 days worth of food with you. The crash kills the co-pilot, and the pilot is bad off and in a coma, one of your people and another passenger is banged up to the point they cannot be moved with out extreme pain to them. The radio is busted, there are no cell towers, and no one has a satellite phone; you all are cut off from the outside world. Your pet survived because it was in a gage and at the rear. It will be at least two days before you are missed and anyone starts to search, because of the harsh weather times an aerial search can happen is slim. No matter what you try you can’t bring attention to yourself. Because of the dead co-pilot and the comatose pilot you stretch 3 days food into 7, but then it runs out. Rain or snow get you water so you can hold out, but at some point if the rescue drags out to many weeks would there be a time where you will say ”If I am to get out of here alive I will have to eat insert pet’s name“? Would you starve to death than eat your pet? If you were traveling with your kid or any kids would that change how you thought; kids surviving or pet?

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