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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Vertical Farming/Hemp Farming

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Ralph talks to Dickson Despommier about “vertical farming,” how to raise farm crops in tall inner-city buildings. And hemp lobbyist, Eric Steenstra, tells us about his ongoing efforts to convince Congress to make hemp farming legal.



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.7

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.8

You've been sitting great to long.

0:11.2

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host David

0:18.7

Feldman, or as President Donald Trump refers to him on Twitter, my so-called co-host.

0:25.0

Hello, I'm wondering if the travel ban will prevents me from leaving the country, but it's persevere.

0:34.0

Okay.

0:35.0

And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

0:37.0

Hello, Ralph.

0:39.0

Our show, Ralph, are you excited about our show today?

0:42.0

I think the show today is going to open a lot of eyes

0:44.9

and it deals with vertical agriculture and we have the global expert on it. So

0:50.8

open your imaginations people. We've got to make dramatic changes in this world if we're

0:56.7

going to feed the population.

0:58.7

Well, Ralph is absolutely right. Agriculture is the theme today, more specifically the future of agriculture.

1:05.0

And we're going to be talking about vertical farming, which is the concept of raising crops

1:09.1

indoors in multi-story buildings in cities.

1:13.0

We'll be doing that with Dr Dixon de Palmye from Columbia University,

1:17.0

who pioneered and promoted the idea,

1:19.0

and then wrote a book about it.

1:20.0

Then we are going to turn our attention to industrial hemp farming and how that industry is seeking to become a major global economic force in the 21st century.

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