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Microwaving in plastic not a good idea
As a rule, microwaving food in plastic isn't a good idea. "Microwave safe" means that plstics won't melt but it doesn't mean that chemicals won't get transmitted from a container into your food
Topics : Lifestyle
A gathering public sense that our food system is broken
There is gathering sense that industrial-food system is broken. Mkts 4 alt food ? organic, local, pasture-based ? are thriving. These suggest a political constituency for change is building not only on left: conservative voices have also been raised in support. Writing of movement on local food economies, traditional foods, sustainable farming, The American Conservative mag said last summer that ?this is a conservative cause if ever there was one.? - Read More
Food industry can be made independent of oil
in the farm field, in the way food is processed and sold and even in the American kitchen and at the American dinner table. Yet the sun still shines down on our land every day, and photosynthesis can still work its wonders wherever it does. If any part of the modern economy can be freed from its dependence on oil and successfully resolarized, surely it is food. - Read More
Tags : oil food and oil
Producing food is now far more energy intensive
chemical fertilizers (made from natural gas), pesticides (made from petroleum), farm machinery, modern food processing and packaging and transportation have together transformed a system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used into one that now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food. Put another way, when we eat from the industrial-food system, we are eating oil and spewing GHG - Read More
Tags : sustainability energy consumption
Topics : Agriculture