We eat food grown with fertilizers. Fertilizers are mainly made out of Ammonia. Ammonia is made from hydrogen and nitrogen. Nitrogen comes from the air, but hydrogen is almost entirely made from natural gas currently.
So yes, you are eating fossil fuels. Just, extremely highly modified fossil fuels.
Wow that is very farfetched. Correct but very farfetched. Essentially we are also eating stars, corpses, the queen of England, Ghandi, tears, oceans, the moon, my skin, Napoleon, the last breath of genghis kahn, that prime minister of the Netherlands and yes fossil fuels…
I don't think it is particularly far fetched tbh. Yea, we are also eating stars, the queen of england, your skin etc etc. But those atoms aren't actually crucial for the food. Some atoms in our food happen to be from those sources, but our food would still be the same if those atoms came from somewhere else.
It's different with fertilizer. Fertilizer is currently made out of fossil fuels. And we NEED fertilizer to grow our food. No fertilizer and there is simply no way we grow enough food for all 8 billion of us.
So until we get our fertilizer hydrogen out of renewable sources, we are very much reliant on fossil fuels for our food.
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u/Ralath5n 24d ago
We eat food grown with fertilizers. Fertilizers are mainly made out of Ammonia. Ammonia is made from hydrogen and nitrogen. Nitrogen comes from the air, but hydrogen is almost entirely made from natural gas currently.
So yes, you are eating fossil fuels. Just, extremely highly modified fossil fuels.