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Episode 97: Food and Capitalism, Part 2

Teach Me Communism

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Lettuce Is a Bad Example in Terms of Energy Consumption

S.E. Cupp: "It's deftly not enough to stop there and say, well, we made all the we did it" She says that if you think about things like pre packaged lettuce, which is a super energy intensive thing, such as oil-based bags of food - they're still bad for the environment. The whole energy of producing it is 57 calories of fossil fuel energy per one calory of food., she writes.

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