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> When growing produce we usually think of acres of farmland. Some say the next generation of farming will be in urban centers like Philadelphia, and you won’t need soil or the sun, just an old warehouse.

Sounds like another attempt at redefining reality and trying to one up God's creation by the atheists leftists with a futuristic dystopian vision. We'll see how good those crops grow without natural sunlight and good old fashioned farmland. They try to remove God and his handiwork and replace it with man made counterfeits at every turn thinking they are above Him while denying His existence. Deep down they know and one day they will know without any doubt.

Hydroponic tomato farming was the rage in my area 20-25 years ago. People lost their butts when shoppers found those pretty, consistent sized ‘maters have all the taste of wet paper

All farms are "unnatural" in the sense that they deviate from wilderness.. God does not plow, harrow, set up monocultures (only one species on a given tract of land), plant seeds in drills, thin, weed, irrigate via pipes or aqueducts or spraying or drip-irrigation through plastic tubes, or eliminate parasites, insect infestations or predators.

Humans do all of these "unnatural" practices: we were given the managerial-operator job in Genesis to "tend the Garden and keep it." (Another translation: Genesis 2:15 - "The Lord God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.")

What these indoor farmers are doing is just an extension of that, and a brilliant one.

I think they are fulfilling the Commandment to "Feed the hungry." and the Commandment to "tend the garden and keep it."