We do not live by bread alone

THere's a true story made into a book and later into a movie, entitled "Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors" by Piers Paul Read.

- FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD

It relates about how 16 people who survived after their plane crashed in the rugged, snow-treacherous Andes Mountains in 1972. Within the 71-day ordeal, when the men ran out of food supply, they had to eat part of their clothes and rubber shoes. And when that too ran out, they had to eat the flesh of their dead companions!

They were finally rescued when two of their companions ventured to hike out for 10 days in search of help.

This true story conveys dramatically the human necessity for food. "You eat in order to live," goes a dictum. There are some, however, who live in order to eat.