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Would you like the crude oil dressing with your tomato salad, or how about the coal-crusted sea bass? If only it were so easy to see the effect of fossil fuels on food production, even environmentally friendly foodies might find their lunch turning to ash in their mouth.
The global food system is more dependent on fossil fuels than we tend to recognise. They power the tractors that plough fields and the pumps that suck up groundwater to irrigate. They are used to make fertiliser and other agrochemicals. They propel the trucks, trains and ships that transport food. In fact,…
