And this is part of the reason why tomato skins are so hard for humans to digest!

This is the problem - there needs to a principle higher than that of making money - especially when it comes to food production!

I’m personally of the opinion of local community growing things to supply fruits and veggies (at least start with veggies), could be automated, make it’s own electricity, as fully self sustaining as is possible!

Such dedicated large areas would work in my area, though not big cities. For big cities start by using the tops of buildings!

…and instead of planting fancy flowers councils should plant fruit trees for people to pick freely for their own personal use I think we had a discussion about it previously and @NobbZ said they do that in Germany - wish they would do it here.

We have some wild strawberries and blackberries (and an apple tree) round here and I often help myself… not because it’s free… but because it’s 100% wild/organic - much better than the rubbish they sell in supermarkets!!