Wed, 28 Sep 2005

No Green Acres? Try Skyscrapers

It's shit like this that makes me distrust the "organic" label:

"This is a factory, not a farm," says Hessel, whose own background is in the chip industry. "We just build lettuce instead of CPUs."

Well, at least he's honest about it. He can "build" all the "organic" lettuce he wants to: but I for one will not consume it. I prefer my veggies to be grown, in the ground, under the sun. If that makes me a "Luddite" or a "throwback", then so be it. I contend that we are monkeying about with things we don't really understand - with systems that are too complex to be reduced, and that, eventually, we will pay a terrible price for our hubris.

And guys like this are gonna get the first bill.

Organic farms don't have to be in bucolic settings. They could stand alongside skyscrapers in the middle of Tokyo or Los Angeles, if a Delaware company has its way. By Sam Jaffe.

(link) [Wired News]

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