It's a transfer of wealth and power from traditional farmers to the technocratic billionaire class.
80 Acres Farms was founded in 2015 by Mike Zelkind and Tisha Livingston and is a private company headquartered in Hamilton, OH. They provide fruits and vegetables to over 600 retail and food service locations. Their robot-powered indoor farms are said to produce 300 times more food than a conventional farm, while using 100% renewable energy and consuming 97% less water. Their farms are powered by Infinite Farms, a company out of the Netherlands that provides complete design/build services for turn-key automated indoor farms. Aside from 80 Acres Farms, Infinite Acres partners are Netherlands-based Priva Holding BV, and UK-based Ocado.
80 Acres serves over 600 retailers, grocers and national distributors, including:
Dorothy Lane Markets
Jungle Jim’s Markets
Kroger
Kroger – Ocado Solutions ecommerce channel
Restaurants
Sysco
The Fresh Market
US Foods
Whole Foods
Krogerhas been selling their greens and vegetables at 32 of their stores, and in 2021 expanded to 316 additional stores after a 15-month pilot program. These stores are all located in:
Alabama
Arkansas
Indiana
Kentucky
North Carolina
Ohio
They’ve raised $250 million in funds from 10 investors:
Barclays
Beyond Net Zero
Blue Earth Capital (backed by Partners Group and Wietlisbach Foundation)
General Atlantic
Orange Wings Capital
PG Impact Investments
QuietStar Capital
Siemens Financial Services
Taurus
Virgo Investment Group
80 Acres is just one of several Vertical Farm companies. https://www.coreysdigs.com/global/new-controlled-food-system-is-now-in-place-and-they-will-stop-at-nothing-to-accelerate-their-control/
These vertical farms grow produce but Cultured Meat is an up and coming thing. They've got production costs down to $3-4/lb. There's talk of Bug Protein being a coming foodstuff. CRISPR Cas9 is being used to create improved livestock. ALL these new/improved food sources have one thing in common. Patented just like RoundUp ready corn/soy. Corn/soy farmers are at the whim of Monsanto/Bayer who owns the patented seed that they have to purchase every year because they're not allowed to save seed. Unlike corn/soy, most of this will be done in and around cities which is where they want to herd the masses into.
Great, interesting idea but is it repeatable worldwide and how much good could the $250 million do for normal farming? $250 million is a large amount of funding to raise and of course this is just one operation, what about worldwide funding requirements? Also, what do we do with the farmers, pay them to not work? Retrain for what job if robots are going to do the work? There’s a social cost to pay to support non-working people which has not worked out well so far. There is a great mental satisfaction for people to work and own something. Just existing with no purpose is not a great lifestyle. So I think we should address all the factors which such an operation would impact before going down that road.