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I was thinking of total energy (and maybe something like CO2) per food on the customer's table, including the waste that's produced.
by zwieback 4y ago
I was thinking of total energy (and maybe something like CO2) per food on the customer's table, including the waste that's produced.
- mariusor 4y agoFor me personally it doesn't tract that reducing the supply chain between producer and consumer to the maximum will result in more energy expenditure: The supplier has one trip to make to sell their current stock. The consumer has one trip to make to buy multiple items that they're interested in (since this is a market).
- framperz 4y agoGreat quote on that from Vaclav Smil's new book: " each greenhouse-grown, supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in production"