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The Gas We Eat

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Date: 2013-04-25 03:58:24
Blog: Terra Central
URL: http://blogs.agu.org/terracentral/2013/04/25/the-gas-we-eat/

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Nearly half of the world’s population owes its existence to food grown with industrial nitrogen fertilizer produced from natural gas. (1) In 2004, journalist Richard Manning published an intriguing, if somewhat controversial, article in Harpers magazine called The Oil We Eat: Tracing the food chain back to Iraq. Manning notes that growing our food under the usual practices requires about 10 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of …

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