F.Y.I.

Did you know that Americans put almost as much fossil fuel into their refrigerators as they put into their cars?

The average American consumes 400 gallons of oil a year. 17% of that 400 gallons per person per year, is spent upon agriculture.

More than one quarter of all farming energy goes into synthetic fertilizers. Guess what's the main ingredient in all of that synthetic fertilizer? Yup, you guessed it. Oil.

But getting the crop from seed to harvest takes only one fifth of the total oil used for our food production. The rest is consumed by getting the food from the fields to our tables. Food transportation costs combined with processing, packaging, warehousing and refrigeration costs consume millions upon millions of barrels of oil each week.

If every US citizen ate just one meal per week comprised of locally and organically grown meat and produce we could reduce our country's oil consumption by 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.

Small changes can make a big difference.

(I found this and other great information in Barbara Kingsolver's book, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle." This book is amazing. I highly recommend it anyone interested in food or healthier eating!)