Sunday, April 22, 2007

Industrial vs. Sustainable

Article title: Oil and Food: A Raising Security Challenge
Author: Danielle Murray
Source: www.energybulletin.net

Over all this article talks about how our current industrial food system is very highly dependent on fossil fuel. Aspects of our food system such as; the mining and transporting of fertilizers, mechanical pumps for irrigation, farm vehicles, transportation of food, processing food, packaging food, and refrigerating foods all require great amounts of fossil fuel.
This article is important because it presents a very serious problem that we all face today. As oil supplies start to run low, causing oil prices to rise, most likely the same is going to happen to our food supplies. Maybe at one point people might have to farm their own food.

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