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The thing is, having one cow, one pig, etc. isn't going to get you far if the world really comes to a screeching halt. You're going to need pairs. Not to mention grain seed, equipment to harvest by hand or by horse, grain mills, a shallow well with a hand pump...oh, the list goes on and on and on.... Everything you own that runs on gasoline would be so much scrap metal as soon as you run out of fuel. Same goes for anything that runs on electricity.
If one really sits down and thinks about what you would need to be self-sufficient in an apocalypse type situation, it's pretty overwhelming.
Having survived several apocalyptic events such as the Swine Flu, Hong Kong Flu, Bird Flu, Y2K, Alignment of the planetsearthquakes, solar coronal mass ejections, Economic meltdowns, The coming Currency Collapse(circa 1980), The 2nd Great Depression, I suppose the December 21st of 2012 cant be any worse then the Zombie Apocalypse thats also coming. I was just at a Gun Show last weekend and they were selling not just Zombie paper targets, but full size Zombie torsos of both male and female versions right along side the deer and turkey 3D target models.