Let's connect the food-oil dots

First, the idea of daily energy calorie labeling?
I like the idea of putting an oil needed to produce label on food, plastic and anything else necessary. After all, as far as carbon emissions content, it's already available in Europe.

Of course, that's just one more reason a lot of American conservatives would oppose such an idea.

But, could it work? Well, early evidence indicates that it works with stuff like sodium and saturated fats.

That said, it would have to be an average of American mass-ag vs. American sustainable/craftsman farms. This wouldn't work on a farm-by-farm basis. And, it would take regulating.

Or, it could be done with the "carrot" of farm bill subsidies.

A great idea would be to tie subsidies to the petroleum-use-reducing sustainability of an individual farm, certified on an annual basis.

And, speaking of that sustainability issue, maybe it's time to be rethinking organic farming's production level. Maybe semi-organic, at least, can actually do better than we've been told.