Michael Pollan Quotes About Fossil Fuels

Quotes about: Fossil Fuels

• In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Erosion, Fuel

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview With Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

• ...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Energy, East

  Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.180, Penguin

• Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into
  food.

  Michael Pollan

  Perspective, Fuel, Growing

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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