It’s not only that you are what you eat, it’s all that the planet is what you eat. It’s not bad enough the health epidemics, the diabetes, the obesity, the diseases, the pesticides, the water pollution, the animal torture and squalor… all those things are terrible enough, but it’s also the fact that your energy intensive, industrial, fertilizer heavy, long range transportation based dysfunctional food system is strangling the planet. With all the intensive inputs and ridiculous misuse of resources the industrial ag systems contribute 50% of the world’s green house gas (GHG) pollution !!
This is the breakdown:
Direct use of oil and gas in farming: 11 to 15 percent
Food- and farming-derived deforestation: 15 to 18 percent
Food transport/food miles: 5 to 6 percent
Food processing/packaging: 8 to 10 percent
Food refrigeration & retail: 2 to 4 percent
Throwing food into landfills instead of composting 3 to 4 percent
