{"id":187,"date":"2011-03-17T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:00:11","slug":"1-interesting-facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/1-interesting-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"1.Interesting Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Consumption<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-average person eats 2,175 pounds of food per year which is 3,600 Calories per day<\/p>\n<p>-this requires 0.6 million metric tons of pesticides in North America per year<\/p>\n<p>-more nitrogen fertilizer is used per year than can be supplies through natural sources<\/p>\n<p>-the total US energy consumption is 3 times the solar energy amount harvested as crop products<\/p>\n<p>-10% of the oil used in America s used in the food industry<\/p>\n<p>-7-10calories of energy are used to make 1 calorie of food<\/p>\n<p>-beef takes close to 35 calories of energy to produce 1 calorie of food<\/p>\n<p>-more than $120 billion of agricultural products crossed U.S. borders as imports and exports<\/p>\n<p>please read the following link for further information<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromthewilderness.com\/free\/ww3\/100303_eating_oil.html\">http:\/\/www.fromthewilderness.com\/free\/ww3\/100303_eating_oil.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some Food for Thought<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, agriculture is 100% dependable on the use of oil .<\/p>\n<p>-oil is used for tractors, farming machines and vehicles and pesticide\/fertilizer machines<\/p>\n<p>-oil is needed in the processing of foods to the distribution state (cleaning, cutting, drying ect)<\/p>\n<p>-delivery of food products require gasoline<\/p>\n<p>-food products rely on the making of packaging materials such as boxes, plastic bags , cans, Styrofoam, glass jars ect.<\/p>\n<p>-nitrogen-based fertilizers contribute directly to global warming: Making and transporting one kilogram of nitrogen in a fertilizer releases 3.7 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can we do to help?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>buy local food products<\/p>\n<p>-buy organic food products<\/p>\n<p>-plant a personal or community garden<\/p>\n<p>-buy whole foods, avoid processed foods<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Consumption -average person eats 2,175 pounds of food per year which is 3,600 Calories per day -this requires 0.6 million metric tons of pesticides in North America per year -more nitrogen fertilizer is used per year than can be supplies through natural sources -the total US energy consumption is 3 times the solar energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6540,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linds9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}