Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Sustainability of Sustenance

10:43 AM | Posted by Steve | Edit Post
At the gym this morning I listened to an interesting podcast on food and how we get it.

Of the many interesting facts, I'll stick with two.
  1. About the middle of the 20th century we used 1 calorie of energy to get 2 calories of food. Today, we use 10 calories of energy to get 1 calorie of food.
  2. Recently, the FDA approved a process to raise chickens in the U.S., harvest them, ship whole fozen chickens to China where they are cut into pieces, and ship them back to the U.S. for sale and consumption.
I'm not espousing any particular point of view on food, the food industry, or foreign relations. But, my science and mathematics background leads me to believe that any system that requires 10 times the resources to produce 1 unit of output is destined for failure.

I invite you to listen here or see The Omnivore's Delimma. Or, maybe you want to read more about the author.
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