"I’m of the opinion that our understanding of the energy efficiency of food systems is riddled with bad assumptions, and the best remedy for this is data. I’m working with farmers in Vermont to piece together an understanding of how scale and management practices work together to deliver energy efficiency in food production, and I hope others are undertaking similar work elsewhere. Perhaps a time will come in the next five or ten years where the energetic consequences of ‘local’ and ‘organic’ will be clear, but as of today I can’t say they are. Perhaps we’ll soon know whether a plant-based diet really is more efficient, or whether that notion is little more than propaganda, a vegetarian myth, so to speak. Time will tell, and I suspect I’m not the only one eagerly awaiting the answers to these questions."
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:02:40 +0000
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