Vending Machine Grows and Sells Vegetables!

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  1. cadcruzer

    cadcruzer Sailing the 8 seas

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    The machines aren't the hard part,if only a clone would mature in 24 hours
     
  2. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    It's already been done, but they haven't Grown it in a vending machine yet.

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  3. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    You mean like the cancers and other diseases you get like E-Coli, Salmonella, etc. that come from factory farms? You think our food supply is anywhere near being SAFE now? This would give the vendor complete control over the quality of the product, unlike now where ppl rely upon the words of farmers who are beholden (and in debt) to the likes of the world's foremost chemical pusher and genetic destroyer, Monsanto.

    And you think it would be WORSE?

    Yes growing outdoors in the sunshine IN YOUR OWN GARDEN, would be far preferable than shipping undernourished chemically enhanced produce across the country (or around the world) wasting precious resources in the process.

    And what do you do during WINTER when there isn't enough sunlight to grow anything? You import crap from where it can be grown wasting fuel.

    You're not buying local, supporting your local economy. Instead you are supporting HUGE multinational corporations that pay slave wages to poor people around the world to harvest produce (if it's not already mechanized and the people out of work after their land has been stolen by the multinationals!)

    You people really need to THINK about EVERYTHING you eat and consume and wonder such questions as:
    1. Where was it grown?
    2. Who grew it?
    3. Under what conditions was it grown?
    4. What chemicals were added to the soil (fertilizers), the plants (pesticides), and after harvest to prevent spoilage (fungicides)?
    5. Whose land was used and was it taken from individual farmers?
    6. How was the produce transported to you?
    7. How much does what you're consuming do to the country it came from, economically and politically?

    Now how well does this vending machine answer these questions?

    This goes for more than just produce, but animal factory farms as well.

    Think before you buy!

    BTW, one day EVERYTHING we eat may come from such machines (but on a much larger scale), esp. after we've destroyed our ecology.

    And a machine like this will one day enable us to conquer space...
     
  4. thedope

    thedope glad attention Lifetime Supporter

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    I've long thought that agriculture should be subterranean hydroponic.
    Disturbed soil is the perfect vector for invasive species and weeds, calling for herbicides. Mono species agriculture puts whole crops at jeopardy from insects and diseases calling for pesticides and fungicides. Any area can then be a food producer without the requirement for arable land. Put a hydroponic farm in your basement. Food is one of the easiest things we do.
     
  5. SpacemanSpiff

    SpacemanSpiff Visitor


    its being done here in Canada..4600 feet underground

    but just pine trees

    http://www.canadianminingjournal.com/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000113821&type=Print%20Archives
     
  6. FireflyInTheDark

    FireflyInTheDark Sell-out with a Heart of Gold

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    Hey, that's a start!
    That's really cool, btw. Might send that article to some friends.
     
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