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Christopher's avatar

Here in British Columbia, we have a fully automated lettuce “factory”. Their 50,000 sq ft purpose-built facility uses Japanese-inspired, precision methods to produce over 10,000 heads of the freshest lettuce DAILY—365 days a year. Delicious, flawless 4 varieties. And they grow year-round. So that’s my base for delicious salads! It’s a game changer (and they’re expanding!). Because, like Ossianna, I love salad!

Year round automated farming like this will be the future, and salads will conquer the world even in cold climates in the middle of winter! https://averyfarms.ca/.

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Michelle Spencer (she/her)'s avatar

I love salads and salad bars were everywhere back in the mid-1980s but they were DIY open cases and there were highly reported cases of food poisoning and then noone would eat a salad they hadn’t prepared themselves - for decades.

But now the market trusts bagged salads and, as you point out, the value proposition is there, especially for single person households.

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David Swindle 🟦's avatar

Great piece! Salad solidarity!

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Alison's avatar

We have no salad bar places except Golden Corral and that’s a no. 😊 Albuquerque.

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Devon's avatar

What will happen to these restaurants when all the people who pick lettuce are rounded up and taken away?

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Ossiana Tepfenhart's avatar

I don’t know. Right now, I don’t think most people realize that TWO groups basically can stop all this RIGHT NOW: farmers and truckers. If one or both groups put their foot down, people will starve, riots will happen, and the states will be at a standstill.

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Christopher's avatar

The answer is full automation. Here’s the thing: the ESA (Excited States of America) never got rid of slavery. A big part of having a slave class is to purposely keep people ignorant (which means not exposing them to facts; do not confuse ignorance with stupidity!). For example, slaves were prohibited from learning to read. Just look at education spending in Red vs Blue states.

So the plan is now to replace workers with AI and Robots. Simple as that. The elite will not elevate the poor, they’ll “eliminate” them.

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Colleen Bent's avatar

Love love love salads too....

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