C.
Regardless of how the leaders rationed the food, the finite supply would quickly run out.
IV.
Fuel.
A.
Except for fresh vegetables, fruit, and nuts, most of the food people eat required cooking.
B.
Perhaps some meat could be eaten raw, but grains are hard for humans to eat without some form of cooking. Think momentarily about two things of illustration.
1.
Eating uncooked grain is like eating un-popped popcorn.
2.
How useful would uncooked flour show itself to be?
C.
To cook, the people needed wood.
1.
They did not have the conveniences we today have available.
2.
It is reasonable to suppose that wood would disappear long before the food.
V.
Garbage.
A.
No one can really collect and take garbage outside the city for disposal or recycling suitable or healthy food stuff.
B.
Some of the garbage might help in solving the fuel problem but that would not be enough.
C.
If some of the garbage could have been used as fuel a vicious cycle with garbage would never-the-less be a continuing problem.
VI.
Human waste, sanitation, and hygiene.
A.
There was no taking it outside the city.
B.
As indicated above in regard to some of the garbage, some of these things possibly could be used for fuel.
C.
Beyond these stop gap measures people would not be able to keep themselves clean, their utensils clean, their clothes clean, or anything clean.
VII.
This brings us to the final logistical problem.