The fact is, we use ten calories of fossil fuel energy for every single (that’s right, just one!) calorie of food we produce. The soils of America’s industrial agriculture system are dead, compacted and depleted due to decades of abuse, so without petrochemical fertilizer, there’s just not enough nutrients for the crops to grow, and without plowing there is nothing to aerate the soil.Įven organic farms are dependent on oil to produce, process and ship their crops. ![]() Without it there would be no food for most of us. is reliant on synthetic fertilizer made from petrochemicals. ![]() More than 90 percent of all the food grown in the U.S.
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