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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
There's several of you who are apparently assuming that "city grows own food" means each inhabitant grows their own food. Why?
In my mind I can just as well see a spread-out city with blocks zoned for agriculture, worked by fulltime farmers living in the city by selling their produce to the rest of the inhabitants.
One might argue that you do want large scale animal husbandry outside the city due to smells, one might couter that by arguing that the whole point of this exersise is to think smaller scale for the agriculture.
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and when a city has a bad year, and the crops fail, then what? or what about people in northern climates that have a taste for healthy things like oranges and bananas? you wind up trucking the stuff in from somewhere else, and we are right where we are today.
the system we have now works, so why screw with it?
from a purely economic standpoint, it's much cheaper to grow millions of acres of things like corn and wheat in one area and transport it tens, hundreds, or even thousands of miles to the end user.
do you also think that every city should have their own small factories to make the goods to make the stuff that makes modern life what it is instead of having things manufactured in larger factories that can make things in greater volumes and transported to the end user for less energy usage per unit?