Top vertical farming companies have jointly created and signed the first Vertical Farming Manifesto and Identity, establishing the world’s first very clear standards for the industry.
The groups involved ‘highlight the impact and contribution the industry intends to make to transform current food systems and help to solve one of humanity’s toughest challenges of providing food for a growing population in a sustainable, circular way,’ PerishableNews.com reported.
Reporting on the opening of the world’s largest vertical farm in Dubai, The World Economic Forum explained what vertical farming is.
Vertical farming involves growing plants indoors, which is why it’s sometimes also known as indoor farming. Instead of sunlight and rain, vertical farms use LED lighting and controlled growing and nutrition systems. Plants are stacked vertically in layers, so many of the farms look like warehouses filled with large shelving units.
Vertical farms are very electricity dependent, as the facilities are constantly using precise analytics to optimize production, whilst highly monitoring the growth cycle, and regulating the plenteous water and lighting need since the growing does not take place outside whatsoever. No sun, no weather, no fresh air, and so forth.
According to the WEF, ‘Instead of growing fruit and vegetables on big farms and then transporting it over long distances in trucks and planes, vertical farming can supply local produce from neighbourhood buildings. This means less fuel is used and the food is fresher.’ They also claim that these plants can be harvested roughly 15 times a year versus the traditional harvest that occurs in to 2-3 stages a year.
Citing Free Think the WEF admits, ‘While some facilities run on electricity from wind turbines, vertical farms running on fossil fuels may be adding to the problem of climate change rather than making it better.’
Nevertheless, the WEF still has been pushing vertical farming for some time. In 2015 they published an article titled “How vertical farming can make you a better eater.” They claim vertical farming is healthier because it is fresh, the availability (yield) is increased, reduces pollution (even though they admit these farms need fossil fuel to operate), and no pesticides.
According to the newly minted Vertical Farming Manifesto, it reads:
We are Vertical Farming.
We are Farming 4.0 with food and technology, people and planet at our core.
We are the intersection of agriculture, data science, engineering and sustainability.
Our mission is to transform food systems for the benefit of people and the planet. And contribute a solution to the deepening environmental crisis exacerbated by traditional agriculture.
We are committed to decoupling ecosystem destruction from food production through technological means.
We collaborate with the traditional agricultural community to enhance current farming practices and help increase production.
To feed a rapidly growing population in an increasingly unstable climate with less resources.
We recognize the climate crisis and are taking action to ensure that food production still thrives.
We therefore grow food closer to where people live. And use far less water, land and miles to grow and deliver it [ >90% less than conventional farming].
To safeguard our ecosystems and to protect humanity. We recreate ‘sunlight’ to grow food and recognize this energy and carbon challenge.
We drive the renewable and green energy transition.
We are committed to aligning with globally accepted impact frameworks [such as SBTi, B Corp, SDGs].
We understand plants and their growth, listening, watching and learning through their lives.
Improving quality, shelf lives, nutrition, flavor, freshness and resource-use.
We provide pesticide-free produce while eliminating dangerous run-off and soil degradation.
We are closed, minimum-waste systems that nourish people and the planet.
We create the environment we produce in, whatever the weather or season.
We innovate and improve every day using AI, data and science to grow even smarter. Producing more crops, in quality, volume and variety.
We measure and adapt our impact and are committed to transparency.
We produce more with less.
We are Vertical Farming.
We believe that everyone deserves access to sustainably grown produce that gives more back to our planet than it takes.
We are proud to come together as an industry to build a global food supply chain that is transparent, agile and resilient so that consumers know where and how their food is grown.
Katie Seawell, Chief Commercial Officer, Bowery, said
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Proverbs 12:11, 28:19
No matter how hard man may try, you cannot buck God’s system of doing things. Once again this is a classic example of “The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD” (Proverbs 19:3).
If the Forum says this will lead to more abundant and healthy food, then I think we can agree it will be quite the opposite of that, as indicated in the listed proverbs.
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This vertical farming is also the same farming they are sometimes using to culture these fake plant-based “meats.” Moreover, these are the same farms, many of them, that are now looking to utilize these gene-sliced crops and Frankenfoods, that are more of a lab experiment then food at this point.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Jacob’s trouble sure is going to be a really nasty time here on planet earth, soooo, glad I will be missing it! everything we see being set up right now is not for me and you, it is for those who are left behind!
Has the Authoritarian Klaus Schwab (WEF) gone mad? Klaus Schwab the most dangerous man in the World, is pure evil. He is what I would call a “genocidal globalist” That is entirely unacceptable in a free society under our Constitutional Republic. PEOPLE WAKE UP !