Why don’t the Cullens keep a stockpile of stored blood (human or animal) on hand to use in crisis situations? If they had, then Edward would not have had to leave Bella alone to go hunt in chapter 23.
They don’t keep human blood on hand for the aforementioned reasons: if they ever drank it they’d be at greater risk of killing someone. Since it obviously makes immense amounts of sense to store animal blood and they never do it in canon, I’m explaining this by saying that preserved animal blood would be so unpalatable that they couldn’t possibly choke it down.
Why don’t the Cullens keep a stockpile of stored blood (human or animal) on hand to use in crisis situations? If they had, then Edward would not have had to leave Bella alone to go hunt in chapter 23.
They don’t keep human blood on hand for the aforementioned reasons: if they ever drank it they’d be at greater risk of killing someone. Since it obviously makes immense amounts of sense to store animal blood and they never do it in canon, I’m explaining this by saying that preserved animal blood would be so unpalatable that they couldn’t possibly choke it down.