What about quality? (Score 1)

While automation can provide the volume which is needed to sustain a bigger population, this might not necessarily prove to be the way for quality. Quality through automation of farming has been plummeting through time, the various levels of vitamins, calcium, oxidants and other building stones of a healthy life are more and more absent in todays vegetables for instance. We'll all be popping suplemental pills within 5-10 years at this rate by my guess..