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This episode explores how our food networks have been enabled by the utilization of oil and gas. After all, food doesn't come from the back of the grocery store, or from the trunk of the delivery guy's car.

References
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/15/485722228/where-did-agriculture-begin-oh-boy-its-complicated#:~:text=Sometime%20around%2012%2C000%20years%20ago,like%20goats%20and%20wild%20oxen.

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/6/1137#:~:text=Based%20on%20their%20model%20using,order%20of%20%E2%88%BC10%20million.

http://www.foodsystemprimer.org/food-distribution/

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2005-04-01/why-our-food-so-dependent-oil/

https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=leopold_pubspapers

https://www.choicesmagazine.org/magazine/article.php?article=114

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/history-background/

http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/ERP/uni/F4D.pdf