I am trying to find out when the church first introduced the concept of a year's supply. I would love to read what was said at the time. Did it start out as a general principle and then get more detailed? I did find this article in 1976 but would like to go back further: https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1976/04/food-storage?lang=eng&abVersion=V00&abName=GLOB88
carolyn nicolaysenSeptember 21, 2019
Cyrus,
I think the difference is between someone who wants to survive and someone who can no longer think clearly due to stress or old age or being too young to understand the danger. When my grandmother was living with me she would not eat and just did not understand she needed to. I found two things she loved and she ate many, many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cream of wheat with brown sugar until she felt better when we got her medications regulated. Studies have shown children and the elderly are the most at risk.
Cyrus L WelchSeptember 19, 2019
I take exception to your comment that people will starve before eating food they don't like. I was privileged to serve in the USAF with a survivor of a Japanese prisoner of war camp, He promised me and anyone else who cared to listen that you will eat anything, yes, 'ANYTHING' when you get hungry enough,
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Becky WilliamsNovember 7, 2021
I am trying to find out when the church first introduced the concept of a year's supply. I would love to read what was said at the time. Did it start out as a general principle and then get more detailed? I did find this article in 1976 but would like to go back further: https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1976/04/food-storage?lang=eng&abVersion=V00&abName=GLOB88
carolyn nicolaysenSeptember 21, 2019
Cyrus, I think the difference is between someone who wants to survive and someone who can no longer think clearly due to stress or old age or being too young to understand the danger. When my grandmother was living with me she would not eat and just did not understand she needed to. I found two things she loved and she ate many, many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cream of wheat with brown sugar until she felt better when we got her medications regulated. Studies have shown children and the elderly are the most at risk.
Cyrus L WelchSeptember 19, 2019
I take exception to your comment that people will starve before eating food they don't like. I was privileged to serve in the USAF with a survivor of a Japanese prisoner of war camp, He promised me and anyone else who cared to listen that you will eat anything, yes, 'ANYTHING' when you get hungry enough,
Mary Ann KershisnikSeptember 19, 2019
Thank you!!!!!!
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