What the...?!?! COSTCO selling long-term Emergency food?!, page 3

reply to post by whatukno

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No, California doesn't have (many) hurricanes, but they do have earthquakes...

Not to mention fires, mudslides, etc...

reply to post by DMTeed

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55 dollars for the bucket. Plus tax.

One line post for a good reason!

reply to post by TheComte

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I'll remember you laughed when I am sitting in my cave knee deep in Western Stew.

Ha Ha, Ha.

Ahem, Either way, it still seems odd to me, and I now have two of them, and hundreds of MRE's to boot.

Anyone posted this information about Costco Emergency Food Supply?

Pope v. Costco

Bellevue attorney Richard Pope has filed a class action lawsuit against Issaquah-based Costco Wholesale Corporation and its top executives for selling a "3-month emergency food supply" product, which Pope alleges is fraudulently labeled --

12. If the contents of a bucket of Costco "Emergency Food Supply -- Three month food supply for one person" are consumed at 3 servings per day over a 91-2/3 day period as directed, a person would receive average daily nutrition of 455 calories, with 18 grams of protein.

13. The recommendations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for minimum nourishment to sustain adult human life are for 2,000 daily calories, with 50 grams of protein.

14. To put things in perspective, the Nazis provided concentration camp inmates at Auschwitz with a diet of 1,300 calories per day for light work prisoners and 1,700 calories for hard labor. The average prisoner at Auschwitz died of starvation within three months on this diet.
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Just stuck me as kind of ironic to find this.

Emergency Food Kit 275 Servings Weather Proof Bucket $84.99 for 25 meals or $3.40ea

[edit on 7/25/2008 by UFOTECH]

reply to post by UFOTECH

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14. To put things in perspective, the Nazis provided concentration camp inmates at Auschwitz with a diet of 1,300 calories per day for light work prisoners and 1,700 calories for hard labor. The average prisoner at Auschwitz died of starvation within three months on this diet.

That is a fallacy, I am sorry but my ex wife lived on 300+- calories a day for months. This is an anorexic diet. It is doable certainly, but it is not recommended. In an emergency this would keep you alive. Not well alive, but alive none the less.

reply to post by jasonjnelson

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That's weird let me go buy some of that FOOD!!!!!!

reply to post by MurderCityDevil

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I am a 2 service veteran and have had to eat a TON of these. The MREs are good(mostly). The upgraded MREs are best, the basic(first generation) were a little bland.

reply to post by jasonjnelson

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I'm going to get some of those!

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