Historically, when societies unravel, the first thing to disappear is fauna/wildlife.
I'm not arguing with you when I ask this, but what events in history have shown this?
It wasn't an unraveling but in the late 1800's Americans were moving west. There were no hunting limits and market hunting was legal. Wildlife took a big hit. Whitetails were on the edge of extinction and the passenger pigeon did go extinct. Goose and duck numbers plummeted from market hunting.
And people aren't taking into consideration that ''everybody'' will be a hunter. And they're not going by any rules, spotlighting +++, they'll do anything everything they can to get something. They'll light thick woods ablase and shoot or run over anything that comes out. There won't be a day go by that anywhere meat might be -they'll be after it.
Where are hogs going to go to escape dozens of people roaming the countryside -nowhere that's where. No one will give a ratzass about someones property lines - if the sounder of hogs went that-ah-way they stay after them. An empty belly and starving children will create a very dangerous world to survive in.
It takes a lot of calories to spend the day chasing something to eat compared to sitting around at work.
Talking about canning meat and such is a fairy tale in a full on collapse of society.
People who think they can protect their chickens/goats/cows/black lab better think again, they better be well armed and willing to kill someone on the spot.
