The right to store the final delivery of food production in every aspect played an important role in the production of petroleum and petroleum products, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, through processing and packaging.
The industry is one of the largest user of fossil fuels, often in oil and gasoline prices, as well as two energy efficiency is low, as the world's oil reserves is not sustainable is gradually being depleted at the mercy of fluctuations.
It is calculated that it needs in the United States for more than 400 gallons of oil to feed a person for a year. About one-third of manufacturing fertilizers, and another fifth in the use of agricultural machinery. Machinery costs, food processing and packaging and transportation costs, point of sale and these common interpretation of the figure of 400 gallons per person per year.
The food production system, in energy conversion and consumption of food calories calories it needs for the average production of each single. When the difference between this calculation to be applied to grain-fed beef is a beef heat astonishing 35 calories. These two figures do not include the additional costs in the food processing and transportation of energy input.
Promote sustainable and organic farming point out that this is the industrial system of food production accounting for what is considered to be inefficient use of energy.
The culprit, they say, is the amount of energy to the production of artificial fertilizers and pesticides, from such things as nitrogen or natural gas. It is estimated that energy to the food production system up to 40% to this part of the process.
It also believes that precisely because the structure of demand for these products of food production systems, meat and vegetables, which has become increasingly concentrated in specific areas of many countries to produce.