[spudbuddy]

If we are what we eat, then we're sort of eating ourselves into oblivion -
a disturbing and enlightening article:

http://www.fromthewilderness.com./free/ ... g_oil.html

The author traces the background of the so-called "Green Revolution" from the 1950's and '60's - to the present.
What jumps out at me is the switch from agri-culture - to agri-buisiness.
The industrialization of agriculture.
It follows that the commodification of something so basic and necessary as food (for huge profits) has driven the world's food production model into an intense level of unsustainability.
Add to that the effects of globalization / societies who can no longer provide themselves with staple food sustenance because their land has been appropriated for gobalized commodities (growing orchids and lilies / strawberries and bananas)...while the peasantry urbanizes into manufacturing ghettoes......it is a horrific history.

I ponder all this...and the "non-negotiable way of life" Cheney barks about.
Brings to light how we've actually been paying for our super-sized over-consumption.

[gego]

As my contribution to a solution to all this energy expenditure on food, maybe I will check in with the local USDA office and see what crop I can be paid for to not grow.