The beauty of sunlight is that it’s free. When you can convert sunlight into a sellable product, at the lowest cost per acre, you make a living. When you convert sunlight into feed for livestock and remediate an industrial food processing facility’s “waste” water, we all profit.
One of the dilemmas of any food chain can be too much of a good thing in one place. Today, it’s not just about our complex and high density food production system. Problems have risen due to our cultural evolution and how it relates to food, food production, and the subsequent waste.