“On average, in a Western diet it takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to dispense just one calorie of food energy on to your plate”
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Jonathan Schofield
on July 11, 2007
Can I diet my way to a lighter eco footprint? by Lucy Siegle
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I'm afraid I don’t know where her stat is from, but I’m guessing it’ll be from either of the books she cites: Michael Pollan’s ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World’ or Chris Goodall’s ‘How to Live a Low-Carbon Life’ - probably the latter.