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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| 25390. | procrastityper (procrastity... | 70.16 | 99% | 2024-07-17 |
| 25391. | Mask (masks23) | 70.16 | 96% | 2024-11-20 |
| 25392. | Fatima (fati1333) | 70.16 | 94.9% | 2025-02-16 |
| 25393. | Jacob (solidbranch) | 70.16 | 96% | 2021-12-14 |
| 25394. | Bobby (bobnfuz) | 70.16 | 97% | 2024-01-21 |
| 25395. | Francisco (faac98) | 70.16 | 98% | 2020-11-11 |
| 25396. | -Tia- (sammie2098) | 70.16 | 88% | 2014-10-14 |
| 25397. | Francesco (billyboe) | 70.16 | — | 2010-06-13 |
| 25398. | Kaley (kaley1) | 70.15 | 99% | 2023-07-01 |
| 25399. | Gerald (gerald3901) | 70.15 | 96% | 2024-09-24 |
| 25400. | rik (rikvd00) | 70.15 | 94.8% | 2024-06-17 |
| 25401. | ThiYaTi (thiyati) | 70.15 | 98% | 2025-03-06 |
| 25402. | Ryan (thief60) | 70.15 | 98% | 2017-11-20 |
| 25403. | Monil (monilsinghal) | 70.15 | — | 2011-02-18 |
| 25404. | jack (jackmort) | 70.15 | — | 2010-10-24 |
| 25405. | Zach (fullbright) | 70.15 | 88% | 2016-03-03 |
| 25406. | Elijah (ej_speed) | 70.14 | 96% | 2025-04-02 |
| 25407. | Benson Huang (irispetal) | 70.14 | 95.4% | 2023-11-16 |
| 25408. | nqtest (nqtest) | 70.14 | 97% | 2024-04-22 |
| 25409. | I AM SPEED (xelestis) | 70.14 | 94% | 2019-11-15 |
| 25410. | JuanMorte (juanmorte) | 70.14 | 97.1% | 2024-06-14 |
| 25411. | Somebody (r_a_c_e_r) | 70.14 | 98.1% | 2023-12-18 |
| 25412. | tstats[jaadunath] (jaadunath) | 70.14 | 96% | 2022-06-15 |
| 25413. | Mathias (mattsric) | 70.14 | 96% | 2022-04-05 |
| 25414. | @therealRnacK (rnack) | 70.13 | 97% | 2023-05-31 |
| 25415. | Justin (rainiak) | 70.13 | 96% | 2021-06-27 |
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