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Agriculture Flourishes With LED Technology

Image | Sean MacEntee |  CC 4.0 Global food demand is rising year after year, and looks to be an industry with future unlimited growth. Humanity isn't going anywhere after all, and as result, higher yield and shorter growth times are the ideal of any farmer. An environment where vegetables can be produced bigger and better, far more quickly regardless of climate change, season, weather, act of God or nature is the ideal, and advances in LED strip lighting prove to light the way toward attaining it.  This ideal has drawn controversy in the past in genetic modification - the farmer's first attempt to attain the fleeting ideal of gigantic produce in large quantity. The consumer was terrified. Even in 2016 public opinion is massively against GMO produce, with a recent study showing that a gigantic 57% of adults surveyed believe GMO foods unsafe- even though there have been no recorded cases of any illness or fatality associated with consumption of GMO. Right or wron