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Re:The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money by ars on Monday July 18, 2016 @09:27AM (#12114901)
You misunderstand. It's not the CO2 of the plants that are eaten, but the heavy equipment necessary to grow the food, the tractors, and everything else involved in growing food.

That's why produce is so expensive - it takes a LOT of energy to grow it.

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Re:The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money by Retric on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:58AM (#12115831)
Produce is expensive because it's minimally subsidized and it takes a lot of people, land, and care instead of a lot of energy. Dry corn is extremely hardy, fresh lettuce wilts.

At the extreme end, roses are not actually much plant matter, they are expensive in large part because you can't treat them like bricks. On that continuum Produce is closer to flower than grains.

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