Thursday, April 19, 2007

Response to article Oil and Food: A Rising Security by:Danielle Murray

Oil is a huge part in our lives, specially when it comes to food. When we eat, we are literally eating oil. every time population increases the size of the farms warehouses where they make food increases as well, so does the machinery and the amount of oil that is used to make and transport these food.
Three fourths of what we eat is processed food which means it is food that has been grown, harvested, transported and cooked with oil. Instead of eating so much of that we shold start ating more legumes and garins that take less oil to grow and transport. Even packaging the food takes up oil and this is destroying our environment every day.
A way to save more oil is by buying food from the farmer's market which is much better because they don't take as much oil to make food ad other companies. Even though they are only .3 percent of food sales we need to go there more if we want to have a good future with no food scarcity and take more care of where we buy our food.

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