[Red Badger]

Soylent green?.........................

[NohSpinZone]

Thank you for sharing. Ultimately, pessimists such as Paul Ehrlich and Thomas Malthus never accounted for human ingenuity in their dystopian views of the world. Let the market figure out a way to profit from innovation and watch what humans can do. It has always been and it’ll always remain this way.

[Fai Mao]

Never fear. The organic food NAZI’s will never allow this

[Jeff Chandler]

I’m waiting for the day when I can use a 3D printer to produce a prime rib eye steak.

[be-baw]

Yeah, but when will they bring the flavor back?

[tet68]

Utopia is just around the corner...

Have another genetically modified protein wafer?

[cpdiii]

Interesting post. This will be done when the cost of doing this is less than growing my food in the ground. Food grown from the ground is cheap. I do have a problem with extreme specialization of plant cultures on which you model is based. A new plant disease could wipe out those plant cultures and great famine could follow.

Ireland became very dependent on the potato imported from South America. The potato was a prolific producer of food and Ireland’s food supply was totally tied to the potato. A virus that attacked the potato caused the collapse of the food chain in Ireland and great famine followed.

There is a damn good reason the Norwegians have a great seed bank in the Arctic. They recognize the dangers of mono culture agriculture. They have collected all the seeds of the world so if an apocalypse of war or biology happens, the old seeds will be there for our use. The reason those seeds are on an Arctic Island is if we had total destruction of nations in a war those seeds would still be there and viable due to the Arctic cold.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Perhaps more importantly, vertical farming also allows tomorrow’s farmer the ability to control the exact conditions of her plants year round.

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Also it would be easier for an enemy (or accident) to take out the food supply for a city.

Or, easier for employee to go on strike

Or, easier for one mistake to contaminate all the food

and so on...

Central control is not always the best

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We HAVE food abundance, thanks to Norman Borlaug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Fed-World-Laureate/dp/1930754906

[IronJack]

What really drove food abundance? Chemicals.

Fertilizers. Pesticides. Fungicides. Chemicals that allowed farmers to plant denser and denser rows with minimal cultivation and maximum yields.

And the planting/harvesting practices that arose from them.

Got food? Thank Monsanto.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[unlearner]

“A fundamental shift is occurring in our relationship with agriculture. We are going from evolution by natural selection (Darwinism) to evolution by human direction.”

What a moron. Darwin’s idea of natural selection was based on his observation of artificial selection, aka breeding. That’s not a “fundamental shift”. It’s like saying that “The Passion of the Christ” was such a successful film they’re thinking of adapting it into book form.

Socialism, supply chain issues, and political destabilization (leading to violence and war) is going to result in worldwide famine. The growing abundance will be reserved more and more for the wealthy Socialists and Crony Capitalists. When the rich elites own all the food, food will be rationed to the poor as they see fit, just like healthcare is rationed once medicine is socialized.

[zeestephen]

Very interesting.

Thanks for posting.

[clearcarbon]

"Such precision farming can generate yields that are 200% to 400% above normal."

That's going to require a lot of carbon dioxide.

[familyop]

"Vertical Farming"

Because large buildings are cheap.

"Wine from France, beef from Texas, potatoes from Idaho."

Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is not very familiar with agriculture or markets.

"Today, we must grow an entire cow—all bones, skin, and internals included—to produce a steak."

That would be about a 600-700 pound steak. Dr. Diamandisio must be pretty fat.

"Imagine returning millions, perhaps billions, of acres of grazing land back to the wilderness? This is the promise of lab-grown meats."

Oh, Dr. Diamandisioelli doesn't like private property. He wants communism with that, too, eh?

[central_va]

We are exporting food and importing finished durable goods which is bankrupting and de - industrializing the USA plus causing food prices to go ever higher. So what little you might save buying cheap crap at Walmart is eaten up by food inflation. Lose - lose. Globalism sucks.

[ckilmer]

Actually there are about six more major agricultural revolutions that the author didn’t mention

[Moonman62]

Ultimately, technology has enabled a massive variety of food at a significantly reduced cost and with fewer resources used for production.

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Technology sure beats more government.

[P.O.E.]

[maddogtiger]

Nobody has a clue about micronutrients.