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To: LindyBill who wrote (1846)	11/2/2008 5:24:51 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39304

Slightly off topic, but maybe not (very long): Farmer in Chief nytimes.com Couple of interesting quotes from page 1 (of 9) After cars, the food system uses more fossil fuel than any other sector of the economy — 19 percent.... ...system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used into one that now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food. Spending on health care has risen from 5 percent of national income in 1960 to 16 percent today, putting a significant drag on the economy.... ...Four of the top 10 killers in America today are chronic diseases linked to diet: heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and cancer. It is no coincidence that in the years national spending on health care went from 5 percent to 16 percent of national income, spending on food has fallen by a comparable amount — from 18 percent of household income to less than 10 percent. Joe