According to Richard Manning’s article entitled “The oil we eat” everything that we consume has a price. While this price may seem to be somewhat small monetarily, as we are a society that craves cheap, convenient food, this price is simply enormous in terms of fossil fuel. It takes an enormous amount of fossil fuel to produce the food that we eat.
Basically the article is explaining that we should dispense of the myth of this food chain
and realize that this food chain is much more accurate.
Therefore, we’re basically eating oil.
In order to examine this concept more thoroughly in History 106, we were told to blog about our food consumption for a 24 hour period. We would then reflect upon the amount of fossil fuel that was necessary for its production.
I tried to consume my “average meals” during the 24-hour period. Also, in order to properly reflect upon how fossil fuels contributed to the production of my food, I divided the process into the following four categories:
