Currently working as a research assistant on the Vertical Farm Project, I grew up in Seattle and have been eating all my life.  Wendell Berry said, "Eating determines, to a considerable extent, how the planet is used."  I think we're using the planet poorly, and I am working on Vertical Farming becasue it confronts three core issues--food, water, energy--and will allow cities to function as ecosystems, which is (unquestionably) a good thing.