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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| 29220. | Rym (ryym) | 68.13 | 91% | 2015-10-25 |
| 29221. | Yunethan1998 (yunethan1998) | 68.12 | 97% | 2024-02-26 |
| 29222. | atta (attaiscool) | 68.12 | 97% | 2024-07-21 |
| 29223. | Akiraming (akiraming) | 68.12 | 98.8% | 2024-02-16 |
| 29224. | now (nowwhy) | 68.12 | 97% | 2024-03-30 |
| 29225. | Turtle (turtle358739875) | 68.12 | 95.3% | 2023-12-23 |
| 29226. | Marcus (marcus_t) | 68.12 | 97% | 2021-12-06 |
| 29227. | pissnugget (pissnugget) | 68.12 | 96% | 2023-08-26 |
| 29228. | hmstr (hmstr) | 68.12 | 97% | 2025-05-13 |
| 29229. | wonder (life_festival) | 68.12 | 95% | 2023-02-27 |
| 29230. | Sharan (spellsharp) | 68.12 | 97.2% | 2024-11-09 |
| 29231. | Justin (holycarrot4) | 68.12 | 93% | 2021-10-26 |
| 29232. | Tejas (tejasfarera) | 68.12 | 95% | 2025-05-21 |
| 29233. | Eduardo (purplehaha) | 68.12 | 91% | 2016-01-25 |
| 29234. | Alex (banal) | 68.12 | 92% | 2013-02-06 |
| 29235. | Hoang (huyhoangan) | 68.12 | 93% | 2011-09-24 |
| 29236. | Natorumi (natorumi) | 68.11 | 97% | 2024-04-15 |
| 29237. | Iai (altaf222002) | 68.11 | 97% | 2024-04-28 |
| 29238. | dancing_shadow (dancing_sha... | 68.11 | 96.4% | 2025-01-09 |
| 29239. | Arjun (arjunpdl) | 68.11 | 97% | 2025-06-05 |
| 29240. | Cow (coow) | 68.11 | 96% | 2019-12-12 |
| 29241. | Lisa (lisee) | 68.11 | 98% | 2016-04-12 |
| 29242. | guiltyasin116 (guiltyasin116) | 68.10 | 96% | 2025-09-13 |
| 29243. | Andrew (treeloop) | 68.10 | 95% | 2018-06-20 |
| 29244. | Abhijeet17o (abhijeet17o) | 68.10 | 97.6% | 2024-03-20 |
| 29245. | jurc (cruj) | 68.10 | 97.9% | 2024-12-09 |
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| Default (English) | 101,604 | 78.55 | June 9, 2010 |
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| Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |