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[ Note: The most frightening article FTW has ever published is now a free

story for all to read. Our paid rs read it last October. As Peak

Oil and its effects become a raging national controversy it's time

everyone reads the story that puts the most serious implications of Peak

Oil and Gas into perspective. Your biggest problem is not that your SUV

might go hungry, it's that you and your children might go hungry. What has

been documented here is no secret to US and foreign policy makers as China

experiences grain shortages this year and, as CNN's Lou Dobbs recently

reported, the US and Canada will soon no longer be the world's

breadbasket. - MCR ]

 

Eating Fossil Fuels

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html

 

by Dale Allen Pfeiffer

 

© Copyright 2004, From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. All

Rights Reserved. May be reprinted, distributed or posted on an Internet

web site for non-profit purposes only.

 

[some months ago, concerned by a Paris statement made by Professor Kenneth

Deffeyes of Princeton regarding his concern about the impact of Peak Oil

and Gas on fertilizer production, I tasked FTW's Contributing Editor for

Energy, Dale Allen Pfeiffer to start looking into what natural gas

shortages would do to fertilizer production costs. His investigation led

him to look at the totality of food production in the US. Because the US

and Canada feed much of the world, the answers have global implications.

 

What follows is most certainly the single most frightening article I have

ever read and certainly the most alarming piece that FTW has ever

published. Even as we have seen CNN, Britain's Independent and Jane's

Defence Weekly acknowledge the reality of Peak Oil and Gas within the last

week, acknowledging that world oil and gas reserves are as much as 80%

less than predicted, we are also seeing how little real thinking has been

devoted to the host of crises certain to follow; at least in terms of

publicly accessible thinking.

 

The following article is so serious in its implications that I have taken

the unusual step of underlining some of its key findings. I did that with

the intent that the reader treat each underlined passage as a separate and

incredibly important fact. Each one of these facts should be read and

digested separately to assimilate its importance. I found myself reading

one fact and then getting up and walking away until I could come back and

(un)comfortably read to the next.

 

All told, Dale Allen Pfeiffer's research and reporting confirms the worst

of FTW's suspicions about the consequences of Peak Oil, and it poses

serious questions about what to do next. Not the least of these is why, in

a presidential election year, none of the candidates has even acknowledged

the problem. Thus far, it is clear that solutions for these questions,

perhaps the most important ones facing mankind, will by necessity be found

by private individuals and communities, independently of outside or

governmental help. Whether the real search for answers comes now, or as

the crisis becomes unavoidable, depends solely on us. – MCR]

 

 

October 3 , 2003, 1200 PDT, (FTW) -- Human beings (like all other animals)

draw their energy from the food they eat. Until the last century, all of

the food energy available on this planet was derived from the sun through

photosynthesis. Either you ate plants or you ate animals that fed on

plants, but the energy in your food was ultimately derived from the sun.

 

It would have been absurd to think that we would one day run out of

sunshine. No, sunshine was an abundant, renewable resource, and the

process of photosynthesis fed all life on this planet. It also set a limit

on the amount of food that could be generated at any one time, and

therefore placed a limit upon population growth. Solar energy has a

limited rate of flow into this planet. To increase your food production,

you had to increase the acreage under cultivation, and displace your

competitors. There was no other way to increase the amount of energy

available for food production. Human population grew by displacing

everything else and appropriating more and more of the available solar

energy.

 

The need to expand agricultural production was one of the motive causes

behind most of the wars in recorded history, along with expansion of the

energy base (and agricultural production is truly an essential portion of

the energy base). And when Europeans could no longer expand cultivation,

they began the task of conquering the world. Explorers were followed by

conquistadors and traders and settlers. The declared reasons for expansion

may have been trade, avarice, empire or simply curiosity, but at its base,

it was all about the expansion of agricultural productivity. Wherever

explorers and conquistadors traveled, they may have carried off loot, but

they left plantations. And settlers toiled to clear land and establish

their own homestead. This conquest and expansion went on until there was

no place left for further expansion. Certainly, to this day, landowners

and farmers fight to claim still more land for agricultural productivity,

but they are fighting over crumbs. Today, virtually all of the productive

land on this planet is being exploited by agriculture. What remains unused

is too steep, too wet, too dry or lacking in soil nutrients.1

 

Just when agricultural output could expand no more by increasing acreage,

new innovations made possible a more thorough exploitation of the acreage

already available. The process of “pest” displacement and appropriation

for agriculture accelerated with the industrial revolution as the

mechanization of agriculture hastened the clearing and tilling of land and

augmented the amount of farmland which could be tended by one person. With

every increase in food production, the human population grew apace.

 

At present, nearly 40% of all land-based photosynthetic capability has

been appropriated by human beings.2 In the United States we divert more

than half of the energy captured by photosynthesis.3 We have taken over

all the prime real estate on this planet. The rest of nature is forced to

make due with what is left. Plainly, this is one of the major factors in

species extinctions and in ecosystem stress.

 

The Green Revolution

 

In the 1950s and 1960s, agriculture underwent a drastic transformation

commonly referred to as the Green Revolution. The Green Revolution

resulted in the industrialization of agriculture. Part of the advance

resulted from new hybrid food plants, leading to more productive food

crops. Between 1950 and 1984, as the Green Revolution transformed

agriculture around the globe, world grain production increased by 250%.4

That is a tremendous increase in the amount of food energy available for

human consumption. This additional energy did not come from an increase in

incipient sunlight, nor did it result from introducing agriculture to new

vistas of land. The energy for the Green Revolution was provided by fossil

fuels in the form of fertilizers (natural gas), pesticides (oil), and

hydrocarbon fueled irrigation.

 

The Green Revolution increased the energy flow to agriculture by an

average of 50 times the energy input of traditional agriculture.5 In the

most extreme cases, energy consumption by agriculture has increased 100

fold or more.6

 

In the United States, 400 gallons of oil equivalents are expended annually

to feed each American (as of data provided in 1994).7 Agricultural energy

consumption is broken down as follows:

 

· 31% for the manufacture of inorganic fertilizer

 

· 19% for the operation of field machinery

 

· 16% for transportation

 

· 13% for irrigation

 

· 08% for raising livestock (not including livestock feed)

 

· 05% for crop drying

 

· 05% for pesticide production

 

· 08% miscellaneous8

 

Energy costs for packaging, refrigeration, transportation to retail

outlets, and household cooking are not considered in these figures.

 

To give the reader an idea of the energy intensiveness of modern

agriculture, production of one kilogram of nitrogen for fertilizer

requires the energy equivalent of from 1.4 to 1.8 liters of diesel fuel.

This is not considering the natural gas feedstock.9 According to The

Fertilizer Institute (http://www.tfi.org), in the year from June 30 2001

until June 30 2002 the United States used 12,009,300 short tons of

nitrogen fertilizer.10 Using the low figure of 1.4 liters diesel

equivalent per kilogram of nitrogen, this equates to the energy content of

15.3 billion liters of diesel fuel, or 96.2 million barrels.

 

Of course, this is only a rough comparison to aid comprehension of the

energy requirements for modern agriculture.

 

In a very real sense, we are literally eating fossil fuels. However, due

to the laws of thermodynamics, there is not a direct correspondence

between energy inflow and outflow in agriculture. Along the way, there is

a marked energy loss. Between 1945 and 1994, energy input to agriculture

increased 4-fold while crop yields only increased 3-fold.11 Since then,

energy input has continued to increase without a corresponding increase in

crop yield. We have reached the point of marginal returns. Yet, due to

soil degradation, increased demands of pest management and increasing

energy costs for irrigation (all of which is examined below), modern

agriculture must continue increasing its energy expenditures simply to

maintain current crop yields. The Green Revolution is becoming bankrupt.

 

Fossil Fuel Costs

 

Solar energy is a renewable resource limited only by the inflow rate from

the sun to the earth. Fossil fuels, on the other hand, are a stock-type

resource that can be exploited at a nearly limitless rate. However, on a

human timescale, fossil fuels are nonrenewable. They represent a planetary

energy deposit which we can draw from at any rate we wish, but which will

eventually be exhausted without renewal. The Green Revolution tapped into

this energy deposit and used it to increase agricultural production.

 

Total fossil fuel use in the United States has increased 20-fold in the

last 4 decades. In the US, we consume 20 to 30 times more fossil fuel

energy per capita than people in developing nations. Agriculture directly

accounts for 17% of all the energy used in this country.12 As of 1990, we

were using approximately 1,000 liters (6.41 barrels) of oil to produce

food of one hectare of land.13

 

In 1994, David Pimentel and Mario Giampietro estimated the output/input

ratio of agriculture to be around 1.4.14 For 0.7 Kilogram-Calories (kcal)

of fossil energy consumed, U.S. agriculture produced 1 kcal of food. The

input figure for this ratio was based on FAO (Food and Agriculture

Organization of the UN) statistics, which consider only fertilizers

(without including fertilizer feedstock), irrigation, pesticides (without

including pesticide feedstock), and machinery and fuel for field

operations. Other agricultural energy inputs not considered were energy

and machinery for drying crops, transportation for inputs and outputs to

and from the farm, electricity, and construction and maintenance of farm

buildings and infrastructures. Adding in estimates for these energy costs

brought the input/output energy ratio down to 1.15 Yet this does not

include the energy expense of packaging, delivery to retail outlets,

refrigeration or household cooking.

 

In a subsequent study completed later that same year (1994), Giampietro

and Pimentel managed to derive a more accurate ratio of the net fossil

fuel energy ratio of agriculture.16 In this study, the authors defined two

separate forms of energy input: Endosomatic energy and Exosomatic energy.

Endosomatic energy is generated through the metabolic transformation of

food energy into muscle energy in the human body. Exosomatic energy is

generated by transforming energy outside of the human body, such as

burning gasoline in a tractor. This assessment allowed the authors to look

at fossil fuel input alone and in ratio to other inputs.

 

Prior to the industrial revolution, virtually 100% of both endosomatic and

exosomatic energy was solar driven. Fossil fuels now represent 90% of the

exosomatic energy used in the United States and other developed

countries.17 The typical exo/endo ratio of pre-industrial, solar powered

societies is about 4 to 1. The ratio has changed tenfold in developed

countries, climbing to 40 to 1. And in the United States it is more than

90 to 1.18 The nature of the way we use endosomatic energy has changed as

well.

 

The vast majority of endosomatic energy is no longer expended to deliver

power for direct economic processes. Now the majority of endosomatic

energy is utilized to generate the flow of information directing the flow

of exosomatic energy driving machines. Considering the 90/1 exo/endo ratio

in the United States, each endosomatic kcal of energy expended in the US

induces the circulation of 90 kcal of exosomatic energy. As an example, a

small gasoline engine can convert the 38,000 kcal in one gallon of

gasoline into 8.8 KWh (Kilowatt hours), which equates to about 3 weeks of

work for one human being.19

 

In their refined study, Giampietro and Pimentel found that 10 kcal of

exosomatic energy are required to produce 1 kcal of food delivered to the

consumer in the U.S. food system. This includes packaging and all delivery

expenses, but excludes household cooking).20 The U.S. food system consumes

ten times more energy than it produces in food energy. This disparity is

made possible by nonrenewable fossil fuel stocks.

 

Assuming a figure of 2,500 kcal per capita for the daily diet in the

United States, the 10/1 ratio translates into a cost of 35,000 kcal of

exosomatic energy per capita each day. However, considering that the

average return on one hour of endosomatic labor in the U.S. is about

100,000 kcal of exosomatic energy, the flow of exosomatic energy required

to supply the daily diet is achieved in only 20 minutes of labor in our

current system. Unfortunately, if you remove fossil fuels from the

equation, the daily diet will require 111 hours of endosomatic labor per

capita; that is, the current U.S. daily diet would require nearly three

weeks of labor per capita to produce.

 

Quite plainly, as fossil fuel production begins to decline within the next

decade, there will be less energy available for the production of food.

 

Soil, Cropland and Water

 

Modern intensive agriculture is unsustainable. Technologically-enhanced

agriculture has augmented soil erosion, polluted and overdrawn groundwater

and surface water, and even (largely due to increased pesticide use)

caused serious public health and environmental problems. Soil erosion,

overtaxed cropland and water resource overdraft in turn lead to even

greater use of fossil fuels and hydrocarbon products. More

hydrocarbon-based fertilizers must be applied, along with more pesticides;

irrigation water requires more energy to pump; and fossil fuels are used

to process polluted water.

 

It takes 500 years to replace 1 inch of topsoil.21 In a natural

environment, topsoil is built up by decaying plant matter and weathering

rock, and it is protected from erosion by growing plants. In soil made

susceptible by agriculture, erosion is reducing productivity up to 65%

each year.22 Former prairie lands, which constitute the bread basket of

the United States, have lost one half of their topsoil after farming for

about 100 years. This soil is eroding 30 times faster than the natural

formation rate.23 Food crops are much hungrier than the natural grasses

that once covered the Great Plains. As a result, the remaining topsoil is

increasingly depleted of nutrients. Soil erosion and mineral depletion

removes about $20 billion worth of plant nutrients from U.S. agricultural

soils every year.24 Much of the soil in the Great Plains is little more

than a sponge into which we must pour hydrocarbon-based fertilizers in

order to produce crops.

 

Every year in the U.S., more than 2 million acres of cropland are lost to

erosion, salinization and water logging. On top of this, urbanization,

road building, and industry claim another 1 million acres annually from

farmland.24 Approximately three-quarters of the land area in the United

States is devoted to agriculture and commercial forestry.25 The expanding

human population is putting increasing pressure on land availability.

Incidentally, only a small portion of U.S. land area remains available for

the solar energy technologies necessary to support a solar energy-based

economy. The land area for harvesting biomass is likewise limited. For

this reason, the development of solar energy or biomass must be at the

expense of agriculture.

 

Modern agriculture also places a strain on our water resources.

Agriculture consumes fully 85% of all U.S. freshwater resources.26

Overdraft is occurring from many surface water resources, especially in

the west and south. The typical example is the Colorado River, which is

diverted to a trickle by the time it reaches the Pacific. Yet surface

water only supplies 60% of the water used in irrigation. The remainder,

and in some places the majority of water for irrigation, comes from ground

water aquifers. Ground water is recharged slowly by the percolation of

rainwater through the earth's crust. Less than 0.1% of the stored ground

water mined annually is replaced by rainfall.27 The great Ogallala aquifer

that supplies agriculture, industry and home use in much of the southern

and central plains states has an annual overdraft up to 160% above its

recharge rate. The Ogallala aquifer will become unproductive in a matter

of decades.28

 

We can illustrate the demand that modern agriculture places on water

resources by looking at a farmland producing corn. A corn crop that

produces 118 bushels/acre/year requires more than 500,000 gallons/acre of

water during the growing season. The production of 1 pound of maize

requires 1,400 pounds (or 175 gallons) of water.29 Unless something is

done to lower these consumption rates, modern agriculture will help to

propel the United States into a water crisis.

 

In the last two decades, the use of hydrocarbon-based pesticides in the

U.S. has increased 33-fold, yet each year we lose more crops to pests.30

This is the result of the abandonment of traditional crop rotation

practices. Nearly 50% of U.S. corn land is grown continuously as a

monoculture.31 This results in an increase in corn pests, which in turn

requires the use of more pesticides. Pesticide use on corn crops had

increased 1,000-fold even before the introduction of genetically

engineered, pesticide resistant corn. However, corn losses have still

risen 4-fold.32

 

Modern intensive agriculture is unsustainable. It is damaging the land,

draining water supplies and polluting the environment. And all of this

requires more and more fossil fuel input to pump irrigation water, to

replace nutrients, to provide pest protection, to remediate the

environment and simply to hold crop production at a constant. Yet this

necessary fossil fuel input is going to crash headlong into declining

fossil fuel production.

 

US Consumption

 

In the United States, each person consumes an average of 2,175 pounds of

food per person per year. This provides the U.S. consumer with an average

daily energy intake of 3,600 Calories. The world average is 2,700 Calories

per day.33 Fully 19% of the U.S. caloric intake comes from fast food. Fast

food accounts for 34% of the total food consumption for the average U.S.

citizen. The average citizen dines out for one meal out of four.34

 

One third of the caloric intake of the average American comes from animal

sources (including dairy products), totaling 800 pounds per person per

year. This diet means that U.S. citizens derive 40% of their calories from

fat-nearly half of their diet. 35

 

Americans are also grand consumers of water. As of one decade ago,

Americans were consuming 1,450 gallons/day/capita (g/d/c), with the

largest amount expended on agriculture. Allowing for projected population

increase, consumption by 2050 is projected at 700 g/d/c, which

hydrologists consider to be minimal for human needs.36 This is without

taking into consideration declining fossil fuel production.

 

To provide all of this food requires the application of 0.6 million metric

tons of pesticides in North America per year. This is over one fifth of

the total annual world pesticide use, estimated at 2.5 million tons.37

Worldwide, more nitrogen fertilizer is used per year than can be supplied

through natural sources. Likewise, water is pumped out of underground

aquifers at a much higher rate than it is recharged. And stocks of

important minerals, such as phosphorus and potassium, are quickly

approaching exhaustion.38

 

Total U.S. energy consumption is more than three times the amount of solar

energy harvested as crop and forest products. The United States consumes

40% more energy annually than the total amount of solar energy captured

yearly by all U.S. plant biomass. Per capita use of fossil energy in North

America is five times the world average.39

 

Our prosperity is built on the principal of exhausting the world's

resources as quickly as possible, without any thought to our neighbors,

all the other life on this planet, or our children.

 

Population & Sustainability

 

Considering a growth rate of 1.1% per year, the U.S. population is

projected to double by 2050. As the population expands, an estimated one

acre of land will be lost for every person added to the U.S. population.

Currently, there are 1.8 acres of farmland available to grow food for each

U.S. citizen. By 2050, this will decrease to 0.6 acres. 1.2 acres per

person is required in order to maintain current dietary standards.40

 

Presently, only two nations on the planet are major exporters of grain:

the United States and Canada.41 By 2025, it is expected that the U.S. will

cease to be a food exporter due to domestic demand. The impact on the U.S.

economy could be devastating, as food exports earn $40 billion for the

U.S. annually. More importantly, millions of people around the world could

starve to death without U.S. food exports.42

 

Domestically, 34.6 million people are living in poverty as of 2002 census

data.43 And this number is continuing to grow at an alarming rate. Too

many of these people do not have a sufficient diet. As the situation

worsens, this number will increase and the United States will witness

growing numbers of starvation fatalities.

 

There are some things that we can do to at least alleviate this tragedy.

It is suggested that streamlining agriculture to get rid of losses, waste

and mismanagement might cut the energy inputs for food production by up to

one-half.35 In place of fossil fuel-based fertilizers, we could utilize

livestock manures that are now wasted. It is estimated that livestock

manures contain 5 times the amount of fertilizer currently used each

year.36 Perhaps most effective would be to eliminate meat from our diet

altogether.37

 

Mario Giampietro and David Pimentel postulate that a sustainable food

system is possible only if four conditions are met:

 

1. Environmentally sound agricultural technologies must be implemented.

 

2. Renewable energy technologies must be put into place.

 

3. Major increases in energy efficiency must reduce exosomatic energy

consumption per capita.

 

4. Population size and consumption must be compatible with maintaining

the stability of environmental processes.38

 

Providing that the first three conditions are met, with a reduction to

less than half of the exosomatic energy consumption per capita, the

authors place the maximum population for a sustainable economy at 200

million.39 Several other studies have produced figures within this

ballpark (Energy and Population, Werbos, Paul J.

http://www.dieoff.com/page63.htm; Impact of Population Growth on Food

Supplies and Environment, Pimentel, David, et al.

http://www.dieoff.com/page57.htm).

 

Given that the current U.S. population is in excess of 292 million, 40

that would mean a reduction of 92 million. To achieve a sustainable

economy and avert disaster, the United States must reduce its population

by at least one-third. The black plague during the 14th Century claimed

approximately one-third of the European population (and more than half of

the Asian and Indian populations), plunging the continent into a darkness

from which it took them nearly two centuries to emerge.41

 

None of this research considers the impact of declining fossil fuel

production. The authors of all of these studies believe that the mentioned

agricultural crisis will only begin to impact us after 2020, and will not

become critical until 2050. The current peaking of global oil production

(and subsequent decline of production), along with the peak of North

American natural gas production will very likely precipitate this

agricultural crisis much sooner than expected. Quite possibly, a U.S.

population reduction of one-third will not be effective for

sustainability; the necessary reduction might be in excess of one-half.

And, for sustainability, global population will have to be reduced from

the current 6.32 billion people42 to 2 billion-a reduction of 68% or over

two-thirds. The end of this decade could see spiraling food prices without

relief. And the coming decade could see massive starvation on a global

level such as never experienced before by the human race.

 

Three Choices

 

Considering the utter necessity of population reduction, there are three

obvious choices awaiting us.

 

We can-as a society-become aware of our dilemma and consciously make the

choice not to add more people to our population. This would be the most

welcome of our three options, to choose consciously and with free will to

responsibly lower our population. However, this flies in the face of our

biological imperative to procreate. It is further complicated by the

ability of modern medicine to extend our longevity, and by the refusal of

the Religious Right to consider issues of population management. And then,

there is a strong business lobby to maintain a high immigration rate in

order to hold down the cost of labor. Though this is probably our best

choice, it is the option least likely to be chosen.

 

Failing to responsibly lower our population, we can force population cuts

through government regulations. Is there any need to mention how

distasteful this option would be? How many of us would choose to live in a

world of forced sterilization and population quotas enforced under penalty

of law? How easily might this lead to a culling of the population

utilizing principles of eugenics?

 

This leaves the third choice, which itself presents an unspeakable picture

of suffering and death. Should we fail to acknowledge this coming crisis

and determine to deal with it, we will be faced with a die-off from which

civilization may very possibly never revive. We will very likely lose more

than the numbers necessary for sustainability. Under a die-off scenario,

conditions will deteriorate so badly that the surviving human population

would be a negligible fraction of the present population. And those

survivors would suffer from the trauma of living through the death of

their civilization, their neighbors, their friends and their families.

Those survivors will have seen their world crushed into nothing.

 

The questions we must ask ourselves now are, how can we allow this to

happen, and what can we do to prevent it? Does our present lifestyle mean

so much to us that we would subject ourselves and our children to this

fast approaching tragedy simply for a few more years of conspicuous

consumption?

 

Author's Note

 

This is possibly the most important article I have written to date. It is

certainly the most frightening, and the conclusion is the bleakest I have

ever penned. This article is likely to greatly disturb the reader; it has

certainly disturbed me. However, it is important for our future that this

paper should be read, acknowledged and discussed.

 

I am by nature positive and optimistic. In spite of this article, I

continue to believe that we can find a positive solution to the multiple

crises bearing down upon us. Though this article may provoke a flood of

hate mail, it is simply a factual report of data and the obvious

conclusions that follow from it.

 

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ENDNOTES

 

1 Availability of agricultural land for crop and livestock production,

Buringh, P. Food and Natural Resources, Pimentel. D. and Hall. C.W. (eds),

Academic Press, 1989.

 

2 Human appropriation of the products of photosynthesis, Vitousek, P.M. et

al. Bioscience 36, 1986. http://www.science.duq.edu/esm/unit2-3

 

3 Land, Energy and Water: the constraints governing Ideal US Population

Size, Pimental, David and Pimentel, Marcia. Focus, Spring 1991. NPG Forum,

1990. http://www.dieoff.com/page136.htm

 

4 Constraints on the Expansion of Global Food Supply, Kindell, Henry H.

and Pimentel, David. Ambio Vol. 23 No. 3, May 1994. The Royal Swedish

Academy of Sciences. http://www.dieoff.com/page36htm

 

5 The Tightening Conflict: Population, Energy Use, and the Ecology of

Agriculture, Giampietro, Mario and Pimentel, David, 1994.

http://www.dieoff.com/page69.htm

 

6 Op. Cit. See note 4.

 

7 Food, Land, Population and the U.S. Economy, Pimentel, David and

Giampietro, Mario. Carrying Capacity Network, 11/21/1994.

http://www.dieoff.com/page55.htm

 

8 Comparison of energy inputs for inorganic fertilizer and manure based

corn production, McLaughlin, N.B., et al. Canadian Agricultural

Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2000.

 

9 Ibid.

 

10 US Fertilizer Use Statistics. http://www.tfi.org/Statistics/USfertuse2.asp

 

11 Food, Land, Population and the U.S. Economy, Executive Summary,

Pimentel, David and Giampietro, Mario. Carrying Capacity Network,

11/21/1994. http://www.dieoff.com/page40.htm

 

12 Ibid.

 

13 Op. Cit. See note 3.

 

14 Op. Cit. See note 7.

 

15 Ibid.

 

16 Op. Cit. See note 5.

 

17 Ibid.

 

18 Ibid.

 

19 Ibid.

 

20 Ibid.

 

21 Op. Cit. See note 11.

 

22 Ibid.

 

23 Ibid.

 

24 Ibid.

 

24 Ibid.

 

25 Op Cit. See note 3.

 

26 Op Cit. See note 11.

 

27 Ibid.

 

28 Ibid.

 

29 Ibid.

 

30 Op. Cit. See note 3.

 

31 Op. Cit. See note 5.

 

32 Op. Cit. See note 3.

 

33 Op. Cit. See note 11.

 

34 Food Consumption and Access, Lynn Brantley, et al. Capital Area Food

Bank, 6/1/2001. http://www.clagettfarm.org/purchasing.html

 

35 Op. Cit. See note 11.

 

36 Ibid.

 

37 Op. Cit. See note 5.

 

38 Ibid.

 

39 Ibid.

 

40 Op. Cit. See note 11.

 

41 Op. Cit. See note 4.

 

42 Op. Cit. See note 11.

 

43 Poverty 2002. The U.S. Census Bureau.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/poverty02/pov02hi.html

 

35 Op. Cit. See note 3.

 

36 Ibid.

 

37 Diet for a Small Planet, Lappé, Frances Moore. Ballantine Books,

1971-revised 1991. http://www.dietforasmallplanet.com/

 

38 Op. Cit. See note 5.

 

39 Ibid.

 

40 U.S. and World Population Clocks. U.S. Census Bureau.

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

 

41 A Distant Mirror, Tuckman Barbara. Ballantine Books, 1978.

 

42 Op. Cit. See note 40.

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