[quote=@catchamber] [url=http://permaculturenews.org/2014/07/25/vertical-farming-singapores-solution-feed-local-urban-population/]Oh[/url] [url=http://www.sustainablecitiescollective.com/david-thorpe/409606/chinas-indoor-farming-research-feed-cities-leads-world]really[/url], [url=https://vertical-farming.net/]is[/url] [url=http://www.sciencealert.com/world-s-largest-vertical-farm-opens-this-year-in-the-us]that[/url] [url=https://qz.com/704100/a-startup-that-wants-to-end-world-hunger-is-starting-with-a-tiny-indoor-vertical-farm/]so[/url]? [url=http://www.verticalfarms.com.au/]Are[/url] [url=http://www.afr.com/news/special-reports/industry-trends/agriculture-goes-vertical-as-buildings-become-the-new-farms-20160216-gmv7z8]you[/url] [url=http://inhabitat.com/futuristic-japanese-indoor-vertical-farm-produces-12000-heads-of-lettuce-a-day-with-led-lighting/]sure[/url] [url=http://weburbanist.com/2015/01/11/worlds-largest-indoor-farm-is-100-times-more-productive/]about[/url] [url=http://www.businessinsider.com/kimbal-musk-vertical-farms-shipping-containers-2016-8]that[/url]? [/quote] I think you're missing the point of what Vilage was going at. Vertical farming at this point is sort of a pretty pipe-dream a milque-toast liberal society does to say they're doing something great while evading the real issue at hand. And that is their fancy gentrified restaurants throwing away all the uneaten food. In [url=http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph240/briggs1/docs/mb060e00.pdf]Global Food Losses and Food Waste[/url], 2011: "In medium- and high-income countries food is to a great extent wasted, meaning that it is thrown away even if it is still suitable for human consumption." Though in low-income countries: "In low-income countries food is mainly lost during the early and middle stages of the food supply chain; much less food is wasted at the consumer level." The issue is further underscored by the notion that in the developed first-world, retailers will straight up toss out food [url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect]that doesn't meet quality standards[/url]. Any banana or apple that is too small, too misshapen, or doesn't look like the packaging is tossed out despite it being as fit to eat as the "perfect" bananas and apples. This may go for grain sizes, and is even applied to eggs (seriously, go to the grocery store and look at all those uniform egg colors and sizes on display, then look for the local cottage-industry chicken owners and see the eggs they sill; the later will have a lot of variety that'd be considered a sin to sell by the major food producers and packers despite being as good as the store-brand). So in a world where 1/3rd to 1/2 the food is wasted or destroyed because its imperfect, or because the developing world hasn't developed the same level of modern agristructure as the west, we could easily feed the 12.9% of the starving people in the world with the infrastructure and the produce we grow NOW. We don't need to build additional infrastructure and use up more land in already rent-strapped cities like New York and London. Maybe you could in Detroit; but that's not exactly going to save the city.