Chogy
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These videos are very common, and there is a reason they exist... What we have are experienced instructors demonstrating that squeamishness can be debilitating or fatal. You must have a certain mindset to survive. Man becomes another animal, using whatever is available. They are showing that "You need no tools to kill and consume if the need is great enough."
Obviously if you have a knife, you use it. Eating raw flesh other than some fish is dangerous and can make you sick, and cooked or preserved food is best, but in many circumstances a fire is simply impossible. There are search aircraft with IR sensors that can see even a small campfire from 50 kilometers. So the choice is simply, eat, or die.
One skill they taught was smoking/jerking meat. The problem is, it is easy to do it improperly. Many people had flies all over their meat while it was being dried and smoked, and days later, they found their jerky stash crawling with maggots. And even though it was training, they were hungry enough to eat it anyhow. The physiological drive to eat and survive is very strong.
Obviously if you have a knife, you use it. Eating raw flesh other than some fish is dangerous and can make you sick, and cooked or preserved food is best, but in many circumstances a fire is simply impossible. There are search aircraft with IR sensors that can see even a small campfire from 50 kilometers. So the choice is simply, eat, or die.
One skill they taught was smoking/jerking meat. The problem is, it is easy to do it improperly. Many people had flies all over their meat while it was being dried and smoked, and days later, they found their jerky stash crawling with maggots. And even though it was training, they were hungry enough to eat it anyhow. The physiological drive to eat and survive is very strong.