Emilie’s Reviews > Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods > Status Update

Cities have become entropic black holes drawing in energy and matter from all over the ecosphere ( and returning all of it in degraded form back to the ecosphere ) .

[industrial junk not included in models] Which comes to around 9.5 million hectares as a minimum this constraints with a tendency of in the pro - manufactured food literature to cite the minuscule footprint of the actual manufacturing facilities alone as the total land take of the method , which is a bit like measuring the land take of meat only in terms of the footprint of abattoirs and butcher's shops.

National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ) has found that a hectare of land devoted to protein - rich microbial biomass production energised by solar ( photovoltaic - henceforth PV ) panels could potentially produce 15 tonnes of protein per year whereas a hectare of soy beans, the authors report, produces only produces 1.1 tonnes of protein.

Eating habits have converged worldwide in recent times , involving a narrowing of dietary diversity across a handful of crops eaten directly or indirectly. This, he rightly says is mutually creates and is created by a global standard farm. He might usefully have added the concept of the Global Standard Consumer ' , and asked in turn how this creature has been made politically , and how it might get unmade .