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I was sent this fantastic article, set as a letter to the then-president-elect, on the food system in America:
"After cars, the food system uses more fossil fuel than any other sector of the economy..."
"But the 20th-century industrialization of agriculture has increased the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the food system by an order of magnitude;...a system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used...now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food."
He continues to discuss the current food system, followed by his recommendations for what to change. Eat local, folks!
"After cars, the food system uses more fossil fuel than any other sector of the economy..."
"But the 20th-century industrialization of agriculture has increased the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the food system by an order of magnitude;...a system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used...now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food."
He continues to discuss the current food system, followed by his recommendations for what to change. Eat local, folks!