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Re:Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory by tormeh on Thursday July 10, 2014 @05:42PM (#8017527)
Those are overblown. Modern mega-scale logistics are stunningly efficient. Food shipped by freight-ship and truck are supposedly more efficient with less polution than a local farmer driving hir* produce to market in a car.

* I hate that term. So clumsy-sounding.

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Re:Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory by GVIrish on Thursday July 10, 2014 @06:51PM (#8017842)
Sure, anything at industrial scale is going to me more efficient than a mom and pop operation. But with a system like this you've got scale and proximity. Instead of having a network of trucks delivering lettuce from California thousands of miles cross country, you can have a small fleet of trucks delivering lettuce within a 2 hour radius. Less spoilage, far less gas, and far less planning and logistics.

This could be huge in cities with abandoned/run down industrial districts that have been hard hit by globalization.

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Re:Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory by pyrocat on Thursday July 10, 2014 @06:25PM (#8017743)
how about "their", no need to bring gender into it.

He/She = They

His/Hers = Their.

Him/Her = Them.

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