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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just replied to your other comment, but even a local network can't feed a city. Let's do some more math.

Los Angeles has about 18 million people, and on average they take about 2 acres of land to feed (it can be less for vegetarians, but lets assume they are just normal people here)

That's 36 million acres needed, which is about 56,000 square miles, which is an area of 280 miles by 200 miles of nothing but farmland.

You quite literally can't even feed Los Angles with a 100 mile diet, even if it was surrounded by nothing but farms (which it isn't)

In fact, California only has about 25 million acres of farmland in total (8 million irrigated, and the rest for animal grazing)

Source local food sounds good, but we import food for a reason. Cities require a ridiculous amount of farm land to feed.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What you said:

typical grocery store

What I said:

IMO every city should have public cafeterias

We're not talking about the same thing. You're arguing with yourself.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I've never been to a cafeteria with a bigger footprint than the average grocery store.