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Industrialized agriculture requires energy for almost every aspect of food production. Industrial agriculture substitutes the by-products of energy use for both human labor and land and can increase yields by well over 100 % when compared to traditional methods. This increase in productivity, however, requires an increase in fossil fuel use by approximately 400 %. Some agricultural economists believe that the continued expansion of industrial agricultural methods into LDCs is manditory in order to meet the food requirements of their expanding populations. Environmentalist, on the other hand, suggest that this may not be possible because of the finite supply of fossil fuels and because of the costs of the environmental damage due to this method of agriculture. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, industrial agriculture requires large amountof fossil fuel use. The following list outlines some of the main industrial agricultural activities that consume fossil fuels: 1. Production of Nitrogen Fertilizers. It...

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