There's a study that asserts that the average bite of food has traveled nearly 1,500 miles before it reaches the lips of Americans. This means its practically marinated in crude oil, doesn't it?
Source is an essay by Bill McKibbon.
2007-10-28 18:13:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Green Living
Yes it does.
I have witnessed both dairy and corn farms disapear from Orange County NY and the surrounding Hudson Valley in the last 40 years and that is one thing that realy bothers me. It means we are getting our food from farther away and if the economic system falters enough we will starve out of our own stupidity.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for progress and development. But not asside from intelligent management of our resources.
anyone who thinks it's all just fine is "whistleing past the graveyard".
Look at all the people who die every year that were just fine untill the climate changed or some disaster struck.
for us it will be the oil industry that will strike us dead.
society seems to run on like a locomotive without a breakman. And every one back in the cars think "well the train is running just fine itself " or something, well guess what, it may right now, but sooner or later theres gonna be a red light or slow curve or the tracks just gonna come to an end.
then what ?
well what do you think ?
we all go crash....and whats sad is if we all just go up to the front and see that no one is at the helm then someone could figure out how this thing works and at liest we would have some sort of chance.
but people don't generally do that.
they just go on and on and on and never look up and say, " hey, who's running this train anyhow ?" or " hey, what are we doing here with all this transportation, are we goofing anything up by relying on just this one single source of fuel?".
so, there you go.
I'd prepare for the worst. you can dig an ice cellar and store some food with this winters ice. lot of canned stuff would also be a good idea. water too. and medical supplies. and tools and survival stuff. and convert your car to run on bio-desiel or vegi-oil. or electric from a solar pannel, and buy a few cows and plant some crops.
at liest LEARN how to farm from a book because it may be all you have to survive one day...
Famine and death and decline are just around the corner....
2007-10-28 19:52:03 · answer #1 · answered by garfield 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
This may not be the funniest, but it's true. I used to work at a Chick-fil-A. There were all kinds of people you'd see. This one lady came up to my register one day and said, "Let me have a chicken salad sandwich. Is that tuna???" She kept asking if everything was fish. I kept telling her as politely as I could that she was a a CHICK-fil-A and that everything was CHICKEN. She just didn't get it. It's a wonder I kept my cool with people like her and didn't get fired.
2016-05-25 23:38:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I was shocked at how much oil it takes to raise a beef. Not only do you need to transport the calf to a ranch, but when it grows up, you need to transport to a slaughter house, then a dstribution center, to the restaurant. They also need to transport the food to the cows. THey need farm equipment to process the feed. They need fertilizers and pesticides for the feed, and means to distribute it. They need to transport vetenary supplies to the cows. COws are the most inefficient means to produce protein. Even pigs convert feed better into meat. Trout I think has the best ratio of feed per meat, but I think the problem is the source of the feed. often, their feed is made from fishmeal.
2007-10-28 19:43:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
And therein the reason behind the "100 mile diet".
It is so hypocritical to see car ads "Buy American" but the same doesn't hold true for food, toys, consumer products in general. Globalization hasn't done much good for the globe.
"Consumerism is based on waste."
2007-10-29 00:16:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The fact that it is marinated in crude oil vapors is the least of your worries. How about all the chemicals and preservatives, flavor enhancers that are put in fast food, not to mention oh, the FAT and beef that was fed god knows what.
Did you know that McDonald's hamburgers have to have chemicals put in them just to get them to taste like hamburger because of all the extensive over processing?
2007-10-29 02:36:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I heard the average hamburger patty has meat from 1000 different cattle.
2007-10-29 02:14:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Big deal, it just means that we're going to have to replace oil from the ground with something else to ensure that we can transport food from where it is most efficiently grown to where it is eaten without environmental degradation.
2007-10-28 21:07:34 · answer #7 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Dont be too sure about these funny studies... one day they will say one thing and the next day they will publish a totally different scenario. Hold on to your horses for a few more days and you will see a different story.
2007-10-28 18:59:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
not necissarly, it just means it's been touched by thousands of hands, which is exactly why i don't eat uncooked food on a regular basis, other than salad, which sickens me. but most germs are cooked out of food, so its safe to eat. :]] glad to make your day
2007-10-28 18:27:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
nightmare occurs defficiancy of vitaminA.
2007-10-30 00:41:57 · answer #10 · answered by mani r 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋