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Re:Roquette Science: How computerized arugula farms take ove... by ggm on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:23PM (#19361960)
to actually useful agriculture

Sorry.. are you saying the 'eat leafy green vegetables' thing is wrong? I understand your underlying concern is the lack of calories, but we don't eat purely for calorific content: vegetables have vitamins and fibre without which we get unhealthy.

Your 'useful' is what worries me. Please don't eat a diet absent any greens except on doctors advice.

Re:Roquette Science: How computerized arugula farms take ove... by vkou on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @01:39AM (#19365697)
If you eat nothing but empty carbs, you will die.

However, growing calories is hard. It's really hard. It's just about impossible to, outside of a real, outdoor, field.

And we need to do it, to keep people fed. It's the hard part of feeding people. Urban farming of a small number of high-vitamin, low calorie crops doesn't solve a problem that anyone is likely to have.