Food System Factoids
An interesting, relativly new blog about how we get our food commercially.
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Food System Factoids
Part of a sample post:
Did you know dinosaurs are in your food?
What do calories measure? Energy! Doesn't (directly) matter if it is energy to feed a car or feed your soul; we can use calories for both. In 1940 the average farm in the U.S. produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil energy it used. By 1974 that ratio was 1:1. Today that ratio is on average 10 calories of fossil energy for every one calorie of food.
The posts are complete with footnotes and links to the original data.
Good stuff!
Posted by DaveH at March 16, 2007 8:03 PM