You drive another oil-powered machine, and you harvest it.
You use another oil-powered machine to drive it to a place where it's processed.
Then you wrap it up in plastic, which is oil, and you put it in another oil-powered machine, and you drive it X number of miles to a food distribution warehouse and an oil-powered machine to your supermarket.
The way food is grown, produced, and moved around the world today, it's an enormous waste of hydrocarbon energy which doesn't make sense.
Why do we have strawberries from Chile?
Why do we have spinach from China?
Why do we ship anchovies halfway around the world to be packaged in tin cans?
There are ten calories of hydrocarbon energy in every calorie of food consumed in the industrialized world.
Three times in my life
I tried to walk away from, forget about, the things that I had seen that were so out of whack, that were so crazy, that were so wrong.
You know, and that is what many people urged me to do.
But what inevitably happened every time
I tried to walk away from this path that I have walked was that everything else in my life would be taken away from me so that this path was the only thing left.
I had no other choice.
And, yeah, anger and resentment do build up, especially when you see and document as much corruption, as much dishonesty, as much illegality, as much murder, as much betrayal as I have from people who pretend to be otherwise.
And I reached a point... it was about 1993 when I first became involved or learned of the murder of Marine Colonel Jim Sabow at El Toro Marine Air Station.
He was the chief of Air Ops, and he had caught CIA C130s flying 2,000 and 3,000 kilos of cocaine on to his base, and he was suicided.
I crossed my own Rubicon at that point.
There was no turning back for me, and I knew that wherever this path was gonna go,
I had to follow it.
In the '80s, because I had some skill as a writer,
I started freelance writing.
I got published a few times.
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