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[โ€“] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where I am from, farmland is cheap because of restrictions that prevent development or building on the land to preserve the areas ability to produce food.

But this doesn't prevent the building of greenhouses, since it's considered agriculture.

This results in many hundreds of acres of perfectly fine agricultural land being dug up and covered in gravel and concrete to build greenhouses.

It would be the same for vertical farms I imagine.

[โ€“] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

That's fucked up. I can see it tolerated at very small scale, but if it goes above 10 acres in any state or small country, it's a bit more than I'm comfortable with.