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… our food supply - be it staple grains, clucking birds, favorite vegetables, or seafood praised for its nutritious quality - has become increasingly dependent on fossil fuels.

This means that when bought in a Scandinavian supermarket, tomatoes from Almeria’s heated plastic greenhouses have a stunningly high embedded production and transportation energy cost. It’s total is equivalent to about 650 mL/kg…

… CAFOs, central animal feeding operations. In the case of chicken, this means housing and feeding tens of thousands of birds in long rectangular structures where they are crowded in dimly lit spaces (the equivalent of a moonlit night) and fed for about seven weeks before being taken away for slaughter.

Producing chicken requires energy whose total is several times higher than the energy of the edible meat.

the economic system is essentially a system for extracting, processing and transforming energy as resources into energy embodied in products and services