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All of these herbicides, pesticides, and artificial fertilizers are synthesized using fossil fuels, which also power the farmyard machinery. In a sense, then, modern farming is a process that transforms oil into food (with some input from sunshine) and consumes around 10 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food actually eaten.
–The Knowledge
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