The Irony of Growing Food In Shipping Containers
Is it a technological savior for growing food or the dark horse of life in the Matrix?
Let’s start this conversation out with a sharp reality: Food deserts are real.
What is a food desert? They are places where the only real access to fresh food (or sometimes any food) is greatly limited by the design of urban systems and food marketplace politics. They can result from the high cost of land and residential space, from the lack of adequate or affordable transportation systems limiting the ability of people to reach stores, and from the stranglehold of oligopolies on the food supply chain preventing viable grocery alternatives from rising up.
So seen from this perspective, container farming seems like a perfect solution to a terrible problem. Let’s take a closer look at shipping container farms and why this might be a savior technology for food deserts while driving us one step closer to living in the nightmare scenes from the Matrix (you know the one I mean – when Neo gets shown what the real sky looks like).
