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I will praise the day when vertical farming becomes completely viable. No pesticides or herbicides of any sort. Grow vegetables and fruit in controlled environments. Focus on taste.

Hopefully they could be viable inside city limits thus precluding the need for transportation from rural areas.

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Not sure how well that can scale. You'd have to provide more energy per square meter of land than the sun does, it seems?

Ripe fruit and vegetables that aren't sprayed or gassed with chemicals to make them ripe prematurely. Unfortunately, hyper-processing agricorps aren't interested in it because profits.

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