Monday, December 28, 2009

Whoa

That's not very efficient. And yet we in the West have far more calories of food than we know what to do with-- they make us fat.

in reference to:

"Some forms of modern industrial agriculture, combined with the transportation necessary to ship food produced, use more than 10 calories of fossil fuel to deliver one calorie of food to the market (Younquist 1997)."
- The Oil Drum | Long term agricultural overshoot (view on Google Sidewiki)

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