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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| 25317. | Marc Sam C. Intog (a_new_fe... | 71.83 | 97% | 2024-06-07 |
| 25318. | Adham (adhamfn) | 71.83 | 98% | 2024-02-22 |
| 25319. | Ryan (ryanbrew13) | 71.83 | 96% | 2024-05-25 |
| 25320. | Dan (yugurtz) | 71.83 | 95% | 2021-05-06 |
| 25321. | The Stig (the_veldt) | 71.83 | 95% | 2016-04-20 |
| 25322. | Matt (digisax) | 71.83 | 97% | 2017-06-23 |
| 25323. | Walker (arunsreyas) | 71.83 | 93% | 2015-10-27 |
| 25324. | Louka (vedacia) | 71.82 | 93.9% | 2024-07-15 |
| 25325. | lani (lani_jhecem) | 71.82 | 97% | 2024-07-20 |
| 25326. | Janette (_janette) | 71.82 | 97% | 2025-02-14 |
| 25327. | Siddharth (sid.shandilya@gm... | 71.82 | — | 2011-04-21 |
| 25328. | shez (shezcode) | 71.82 | 96.5% | 2023-08-22 |
| 25329. | Ryan (typerace_ryan) | 71.82 | 97.7% | 2024-10-16 |
| 25330. | Tajwar (dxadcircuit) | 71.82 | 97% | 2021-08-07 |
| 25331. | email (emailgmail) | 71.82 | 96% | 2019-06-12 |
| 25332. | duhber (duhber) | 71.82 | 94% | 2016-02-21 |
| 25333. | Phillip (littlebigphil) | 71.81 | 93% | 2016-02-10 |
| 25334. | Lily (lilyhai) | 71.81 | 97% | 2018-02-22 |
| 25335. | mahesh (kakashi757) | 71.81 | 97% | 2022-06-02 |
| 25336. | decaydecaydecaydecaydecayde... | 71.81 | 96% | 2024-03-19 |
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| 25338. | Bulbaman (bulbamaneu) | 71.81 | 97% | 2025-02-02 |
| 25339. | Michael (michaeleekk) | 71.81 | 97% | 2011-09-22 |
| 25340. | Jared (infamousjj) | 71.81 | 94% | 2017-10-04 |
| 25341. | Amy (miss_a) | 71.81 | — | 2010-07-29 |
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