Our food, says Michael Pollan (Omnivore’s Dilemma) is “drenched in fossil fuel” (183). He goes on to say, “Today it takes between seven and ten calories of fossil fuel energy to deliver one calorie of food energy to an American plate…only a fifth of the total energy used to feed us is consumed on the farm; the rest is spent processing the food and moving it around” (183). Why is this topic so completely missing from energy conservation conversations?
What are your suggestions for improving this situation? Does it matter?
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