>>> Much
>>> more than half of all imported oil is used to provide fertilizer,
>>> pesticides, transport, cooling, packaging and distribution of food.
>>>
>>>
>> Cite your source, please.
>>
>>
>
> Harpers magazine... Some months ago. Google finds:
>
http://www.energybulletin.net/5045.html
>
>
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915 "The Oil We Eat: Following
> the food chain back to Iraq"
>
>
http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2006/03/28/oil-we-eat/
>
> The government web site appears to contradict me... Either my source was
> exaggerating (possible) or Monsanto, et all, have some influence in the
> government. Nah... That's crazy talk.
> www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=monsanto+executives+EPA+OR+FDA
>
http://members.aye.net/~hippie/monsanto.htm
>
> www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/oil_marke
> t_basics/dem_image_us_cons_prod.htm is a good example of a graph that could
> be misleading. Stack the "Other" (could it be fertilizer and pesticides?) on
> top of "Distallite" (Diesel fuels used to transport food) and you are higher
> than "Motor Gasoline" Then consider the Motor Gasoline used to go pickup
> food at the store rather than walking into your back yard like they do at
>
http://www.pathtofreedom.com
>
> Please allow me to change tack here... Even if I'm wrong about the
> percentage of oil used in food production, and oil is actually used almost
> entirely in transportation instead, planting a garden is STILL something we
> CAN do to help. Most of us MUST commute to feed (grin) our families so
> cutting out the car is a no-go (grin again).
>
> But growing some food at home is something we CAN and SHOULD do. More
> plants, more O2 less CO2, less trips to the store (we have about one meal a
> week entirely from the back yard), less plastic packaging, less storage of
> food at the store, less fuel used to transport food to the store, less
> pesticide and fertilizer (of whatever sort) transported to the farm AND...
> Less money required to purchase the food in the first place.
>
> Not to mention how much better real eggs, herbs, spices, spinach, saturn
> peaches and many others taste compared to the "plastic" crap you get at the
> store.
>
>
>>> How about a social web site that shows an overhead picture of your
>>> garden and invites people to play a "game" of nuking your weeds,
>>> complete with CGI explosions of the targets. The aggregate result,
>>> less protected areas where you know there are plants, can
>>>
>> direct the robot to weed the area.
>>
>> Who needs games when there are herbicides and GMOs? Monsanto
>> gave farmers have round-up ready crops, so now you just need
>> round-up ready
>> vegis. Spray it all but only the weeds die! Right, James? :)
>>
>
> ARRRGGGHHH!! Gag, choke.... Your just pulling my chain right? Please just
> Google for "farmer percy" and I'll bite my tongue otherwise...
>
>
http://www.percyschmeiser.com/ Follow the cycle: Farm must buy Monsanto
> seeds and pesticide, farm makes less money, farm applies for federal
> bailout, your tax dollars went via farm to Monsanto. Perfect example of
> hidden corporate welfare.
>
> ---
> James.
>
>
>