On 11/05/17 10:00, Carsten Agger wrote: > > That said, the ideas behind the food computer are interesting. It might > be the most rational way to source some plants (rather than exploit > vulnerable ecosystems and have them shipped across the globe), and in > terms of sustainability it might be more rational than industrial farming. > > But I think it would be more of a supplement and that the majority of > the food we eat should be produced by natural methods, following the > permaculture principle of rebuilding at least as many ressources as are > consumed.
Thanks for raising the topic of permaculture. I feel these things all have a role to play too. Some points about the role of the food computer: - there will always be some countries who can't produce enough food through purely natural processes due to size/population ratio (think of Singapore) and people in those places will be attracted to solutions like this - it is great for educational and research purposes, especially in the family home or in cities - from a hacker/developer perspective, both permaculture and food computers provide interesting problems to be solved and some software development will help in both domains (reusable code libraries anybody?) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
