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>we in the US use more energy cooking food than is used to grow it Do you have a citation or a calculation for that?
by hollerith 3y ago
>we in the US use more energy cooking food than is used to grow it
Do you have a citation or a calculation for that?
- pfdietz 3y agoNot directly, but various things I google show that in the US food system, only 10-20% of the energy used is on the farm. Much more is in handling (which includes cooking and refrigeration), transportation, and processing.
- asdff 3y agoNo surprise, farm is powered by the sun and water pressure.
- tormeh 3y agoI hope you're trolling, because that's definitely not how that works.
- hollerith 3y agoHe thinks farms don't use a lot of fossil fuels because he experiences positive feelings when he thinks about farms :)
- asdff 3y agoI have smelled a tractor before
- asdff 3y agoSure other fuels go into it but it also takes in things like sunlight and water pressure as inputs for doing work (from the growing crops perspective at least). Whereas with transporting the goods, you don't have solar powered trucks or things powered from watermills or hydroelectricity moving these tomatoes. 100% of the energy makeup of the transportation side will be from fossil fuels, in contrast to the growing where fossil fuels make up some fraction but not the whole due to the work done by the sun and pressurized water. Likewise with handling and storage. I expect tyson foods has no bulk freeze drying apparatus that is powered independently with its own nuclear reactor, they are probably pulling from the dirty grid.