Comments on: Pigs Raised in Skyscrapers http://www.cityfarmer.info/2009/04/01/pigs-raised-in-skyscrapers/ New Stories From 'Urban Agriculture Notes' Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: monica http://www.cityfarmer.info/2009/04/01/pigs-raised-in-skyscrapers/comment-page-1/#comment-5916 monica Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:51:52 +0000 http://www.cityfarmer.info/?p=1281#comment-5916 sorry, I can't write very well in english: arquitects really please forget all you ideas stop thinking STOP we don't need this this is killing people, and pigs. the age of stupid is perfectly represented in this projects. not only for mvrdv are these words also for all of us who waste time thinking if it can work out. WE DON'T NEED pigs for eating them. it is not even healthy. please, start eating arquitects. thank you Mónica (an arquitect that doesn't dream to be god) sorry, I can’t write very well in english:

arquitects
really
please
forget all you ideas
stop thinking
STOP
we don’t need this
this is killing people, and pigs.
the age of stupid is perfectly represented in this projects.
not only for mvrdv are these words
also for all of us who waste time thinking if it can work out.

WE DON’T NEED pigs for eating them.
it is not even healthy.
please, start eating arquitects.

thank you

Mónica
(an arquitect that doesn’t dream to be god)

]]> By: Aurora http://www.cityfarmer.info/2009/04/01/pigs-raised-in-skyscrapers/comment-page-1/#comment-2131 Aurora Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:04:38 +0000 http://www.cityfarmer.info/?p=1281#comment-2131 What makes the idealists who create this concept think, that such means of pork production will be organic? First of all - it is questionable if keeping pigs indoors is still organic. More to the point however is, that as long as there is a high demand for cheap pork, most of the pig farms will produce cheap pork, which means that there will be skyscraper farms packed with pigs. Can anyone say chicken boxes? This is basically just stacking industrial pig production into buildings, just as it was done with chickens in the past. You get increased production, but I see it not as an inevitable conclusion that this in any ways would lead to that production beeing "organic". What makes the idealists who create this concept think, that such means of pork production will be organic? First of all – it is questionable if keeping pigs indoors is still organic. More to the point however is, that as long as there is a high demand for cheap pork, most of the pig farms will produce cheap pork, which means that there will be skyscraper farms packed with pigs. Can anyone say chicken boxes? This is basically just stacking industrial pig production into buildings, just as it was done with chickens in the past. You get increased production, but I see it not as an inevitable conclusion that this in any ways would lead to that production beeing “organic”.

]]> By: Mark E. Smith http://www.cityfarmer.info/2009/04/01/pigs-raised-in-skyscrapers/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Mark E. Smith Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:01:09 +0000 http://www.cityfarmer.info/?p=1281#comment-57 Does the plan provide for bio-gas production? Dealing with animal wastes is a big problem here in he U.S., particularly with factory farms. I can't imagine that the Dutch would ever have allowed anything like that in the first place. But using wastes to produce bio-gas can be a huge energy asset for a city. Does the plan provide for bio-gas production? Dealing with animal wastes is a big problem here in he U.S., particularly with factory farms. I can’t imagine that the Dutch would ever have allowed anything like that in the first place. But using wastes to produce bio-gas can be a huge energy asset for a city.

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