Food and Energy Crisis

 Year by year, the energy cost of each mouthful of our food has increased, until now we are using about ten times as much energy as our meals contain. This is hard to believe, but it begins with agriculture itself. The tractors need gasoline, the irrigation pumps need electricity, and synthetic fertilizers need natural gas. There are some crops like low-intensity potatoes that yield ten times as much energy as they use up, but others, like feedlot beef, use more than ten times as much energy as they produce. It all averages out to figures that agriculture consumes about three times the amount of energy eventually consumed at the table. But the energy costs don't end with growing the food. Harvesting is followed by trucking and food processing. The manufacture of paper, glass jars, and metal cans used for packaging all require additional energy. The costs just keep adding up right through cooking the meal itself. The final tally is roughly ten calories spent for every calorie we swallow. The increasing population and the demand to sustain with lesser provisions of providing electricity, food has stressed the natural resources. It is estimated that in another 50 years or so, huge energy crisis will be faced since all coal resources will deplete. So if we want to save our resources  WE MUST ACT NOW!!