Teaching Young People Why We Prep

Over the past few decades there has been a shift in prepping education. Before the end of the Cold War, the United States government ran public education programs on TV. These were short infomercials talking about duck and cover.

Before TV, the government would publish posters and other educational material asking people to grow their own food. This was especially true during World War I and II. The more food people grew, the more food could be put towards wartime efforts.

Today, there is barely any talk about duck and cover, much less growing our own food. Except for natural disasters, the federal government has removed itself from prepping. The little bit of information that is published is a faint shadow of what used to be published.

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Teaching Young People Why We Prep