How do you feel about vegetables grown with artificial sunlight, would you eat, buy them?

Question

these vegetables would not be grown with synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Do you think indoor production of produce is acceptable? do you think the indoor grown vegetables would have the same nutrition content?

they will not be cloned, they will be started from seeds. as far as radiation goes I am unclear. There should be specific lights that filter that out?

Answer 1

> How do you feel about vegetables grown with artificial sunlight, would you eat, buy them?
If the price were comparable to the price of under-the-sun produce, then, yes.

> Do you think indoor production of produce is acceptable?
If you're using artificial lights, then, from an energy standpoint, no. It's more efficient to have the plants get energy from the sun, than to burn fossil fuels to power artificial lighting.

> do you think the indoor grown vegetables would have the same nutrition content?
Yes.

Answer 2

In photosynthesis, plants use sunlight to create glucose. Chemically, I believe artificially grown vegetables would have the same nutritional content, assuming no pesticides or fertilizers. My question is, what type of radiation is the produce being exposed to? Would an excess of x-rays, ultraviolet rays or gamma rays negatively affect these plants? Possibly so, since these types of radiation are known to cause DNA mutations in plant and animal cells. Also, are these vegetables genetically identical to each other? Have they been cloned from a mother plant?

Answer 3

I don't see how the nutritional values would be different, but how can it be energy efficient?

Actually, probably uses no more fuel than flying out of season vegetables half way round the world.

Answer 4

I suppose if the light differed significantly from natural sunlight there might be some difference, but grow lights are engineered to mimic natural sunlight as closely as possible so it wouldn't bother me. But you never know what some extreme environmentalists will complain about.