{"id":6965,"date":"2011-05-17T05:27:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2011-05-17T05:27:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T05:27:09","slug":"grow-your-own-food-with-sunlight-instead-of-eating-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/grow-your-own-food-with-sunlight-instead-of-eating-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow your own food with sunlight – instead of eating oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It takes four glasses of oil to make one hamburger<\/p><\/div>
\nMost of the oil is used to produce the nitrogen used to grow the ingredients for the burger – according to Michael Pollan<\/a>. The alternative is to eat locally grown food for which the energy comes from the sun – and from human labour. If there was to be a return to ‘sun-grown’, instead of ‘oil-grown’ food then agriculural employment would have to rise again after a long fall.
\nThe other point about a burger-rich diet is that it is extremely bad for your health. The US healthcare crisis is said to be is a consequence of the US diet which is a consequence of the US pattern of agricultural subsidies. In Europe, the pattern is similar but not so severe.
\nLandscape architects and garden designers can do a little to ameliorate the problem: they can include food plants in their planting designs.<\/p>\n

Above image courtesy Pete Foley<\/a>. Below image, of a local garden in Berkeley, California, courtesy hfordsa<\/a><\/p>\n

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Most of the oil is used to produce the nitrogen used to grow the ingredients for the burger – according to Michael Pollan. The alternative is to eat locally grown food for which the energy comes from the sun – and from human labour. If there was to be a return to ‘sun-grown’, instead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}