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Monthly Archives: March 2006

How Much Fossil Fuel is in Your Food?

23 March 2006 | Tom Dispatch.com
The blurb from Organic Consumers Assn’s Organic Bytes letter runs:
An average of over seven calories of fossil fuel is burned up for every calorie of energy we get from our food. This means that the average 2000 calorie daily diet requires approximately two quarts of crude oil to produce, process, [...]