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NickB79

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7. Indoor farms are a smokescreen that solves nothing

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Mon Aug 18, 2025, 09:58 PM

Aug 18

Humans require calorie-dense crops as a backbone to survive, and literally no indoor farms produce such. Every indoor farm services niche markets like lettuce, kale, strawberries and tomatoes. The economics and scale pretty much rule out any calorie-dense indoor farms being viable anytime soon either.

The people being serviced by these farms are not the poor and nutrient-deprived. They're the comfortably middle class and above.

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Fresh, local, and predictable: How "indoor" farms are solving food's biggest problems [View all] riversedge Aug 17 OP

one wonders about the nutritional value. it is said that has declined since the advent of mass farming nt msongs Aug 17 #1

Wholesale fresh and dry vegetables up 38.9% from June to July, per Producer Price Index progree Aug 18 #2

PPI is defined as domestic nilram Aug 18 #3

Thanks. I was wondering about importers who add a margin to the goods they import progree Aug 18 #6

It's a fine bandaid or stopgap until conditions become more severe. nilram Aug 18 #4

Yes, good thing high-tech indoor farming doesn't use any energy . . . hatrack Aug 18 #5

Indoor farms are a smokescreen that solves nothing NickB79 Aug 18 #7