It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food. From the standpoint of industrial efficiency, it's too bad we can't simply drink the petroleum directly, because there's a lot less energy in a bushel of corn (measured in calories) than there is in the half gallon or so of oil required to produce it. Ecologically this is a fabulously expensive way to produce food.
—from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, a book by Michael Pollan
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| 31458. | PeteZaroll (petezaroll) | 63.80 | 95% | 2024-04-05 |
| 31459. | PunkRockMonk (punkrockmonk) | 63.80 | 98% | 2025-02-28 |
| 31460. | Majed (vmajinv) | 63.80 | 97% | 2025-02-25 |
| 31461. | derHenkel (derhenkel) | 63.80 | 97% | 2024-10-09 |
| 31462. | Tinybrew (tinybrew) | 63.80 | 97% | 2024-11-08 |
| 31463. | Malissa (malissa07) | 63.80 | 97% | 2011-09-08 |
| 31464. | John (rlawldjs) | 63.80 | 94% | 2024-07-29 |
| 31465. | camred (camred) | 63.79 | 97.9% | 2025-01-16 |
| 31466. | Muids (muids) | 63.79 | 97% | 2024-06-09 |
| 31467. | Matthias (reiwok) | 63.79 | 94% | 2014-10-05 |
| 31468. | Justin (justtis) | 63.79 | 97% | 2011-10-21 |
| 31469. | cole (cmurph) | 63.79 | 93% | 2014-02-19 |
| 31470. | Piglot (piglot44) | 63.78 | 96% | 2023-12-16 |
| 31471. | Sven (paindevil07) | 63.78 | 95% | 2022-09-24 |
| 31472. | Amir (thebluebear) | 63.78 | 94% | 2021-03-13 |
| 31473. | ridan (ridanrekas) | 63.78 | 94% | 2013-02-18 |
| 31474. | Florian (jordanbelfort) | 63.77 | 96% | 2021-02-12 |
| 31475. | Hannah (hrjackson7) | 63.77 | 96% | 2024-11-04 |
| 31476. | Opu (samops) | 63.77 | 95% | 2023-09-08 |
| 31477. | jianhao (libliduobuqiuqiu) | 63.77 | 97% | 2023-11-16 |
| 31478. | Udit (uditagrawal) | 63.77 | 92% | 2014-05-07 |
| 31479. | bhuvi (bhuvi1606) | 63.77 | 96% | 2025-05-13 |
| 31480. | GARDENIA#1 (duyyy) | 63.77 | 94% | 2019-12-15 |
| 31481. | Balazs (bbalazska) | 63.76 | 97% | 2023-02-09 |
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| 31483. | Charles (snarls_charles) | 63.76 | 98.4% | 2024-10-05 |
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