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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| 31954. | PastaSmuggler (pasta_smuggler) | 63.35 | 96.9% | 2024-12-23 |
| 31955. | Kelzai (kelzai_) | 63.35 | 97% | 2024-09-22 |
| 31956. | west (westschain) | 63.35 | 95% | 2024-01-17 |
| 31957. | Caleb (saelinor) | 63.35 | 96% | 2024-03-26 |
| 31958. | Chris (hotdogdaniel) | 63.35 | 94% | 2025-02-11 |
| 31959. | RUDIGER (rudiger100) | 63.34 | 98% | 2025-03-18 |
| 31960. | Kira (kirapein) | 63.34 | 97.5% | 2025-02-04 |
| 31961. | Diemid (masonord) | 63.34 | 94% | 2024-12-28 |
| 31962. | bodz204 (bodex204) | 63.34 | 96% | 2024-06-23 |
| 31963. | David (i_am_bad_at_making_n... | 63.34 | 94.7% | 2024-02-10 |
| 31964. | Divyanshu (emosareus) | 63.34 | 95.9% | 2024-01-30 |
| 31965. | Josue (josue_g) | 63.34 | 98% | 2025-05-21 |
| 31966. | Nibblet (nibbletdaking) | 63.34 | 94.9% | 2023-12-21 |
| 31967. | tomy (zendex13) | 63.34 | 96% | 2024-04-20 |
| 31968. | Trevin (trevin_gilpin) | 63.34 | 95% | 2017-03-09 |
| 31969. | muyi (muyi2015) | 63.34 | 95% | 2015-10-29 |
| 31970. | Ms. Nickle (gweilo) | 63.33 | — | 2011-02-22 |
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| 31972. | Huw (huwwr) | 63.33 | 94% | 2024-05-11 |
| 31973. | work123 (ylalu) | 63.33 | 96.4% | 2024-03-29 |
| 31974. | TiDu (nguytienducc) | 63.33 | 95% | 2021-04-02 |
| 31975. | Ethan (ethanwander) | 63.33 | 97% | 2020-12-27 |
| 31976. | kumaicho (kumaicho) | 63.33 | 96% | 2020-12-02 |
| 31977. | Amie (asears76) | 63.33 | 97% | 2012-08-29 |
| 31978. | sanju (sanjusingh) | 63.33 | 93% | 2015-02-18 |
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