if the yield on one hydroponic acre of tomatoes can top 300 tons a year, and per capita consumption in the us is 20 pounds per year, and there are 300 million of us (6 billion pounds; 3 million tons), wouldn’t just 10,000 acres cover it? Since there are 400,000 acres of tomatoes right now, that would leave 390,000 acres for other things, like cows that walk around and eat grass instead of stand around and eat corn. it’s only a step toward the 100,000,000 acres that our 10,000,000 cattle need in order for each of them to pasture, but we’re also talking about only one vegetable.

imagine if we could cut corn from 90,000,000 acres to 10 million? 80 million acres for the cows, and we’re almost there. plus, the cows wouldn’t need to eat the corn anymore, which they shouldn’t be doing anyway, so we’d need even less. and if we have that much space for cows, we could sure as heck add a lot of chickens, who get along so beautifully with cows. of course, the government won’t ever stop subsidizing corn – it just can’t let go – so maybe it’s a moot point.

now make all those small hydrofarms small aquafarms, and you’ve got more fish than you know what to do with. to boot, it’ll be lower in mercury than fish usually is, and it’s better for you to begin with.

anyway.