Almería, Spain's sea of plastic (greenhouses) seen from above. Covering 40000 hectares, it produces around 3.5 million tons of fruits & veggies every year, capable of feeding over 500M people.
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40 000 hectares is 400 square kilometers or 154 square miles. Try and wrap your head around that.
My head barely fits around this smooth squishy thing that seems to rattle more and more i bump it on something.
It's tiny.
Exactly, the minimum bending radius of your head is just too big.
I mean I can pinch it with my fingers.
Yes, but I told you to wrap your head around it.
It's not that much when you consider the same production in the open field environment would take 10x the land area.
I have been in a bunch of those greenhouses. It looks almost like snow when you get up on the hills.
It's still a big area
Also relies on the exploitation of migrant workers
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/21/europe/spain-migrant-workers-conditions-intl
Crazy. Why can't we devise a system where everyone has their own assigned time in the year to pick crops in a hothouse to spread out the suffering rather than have an underclass of near slaves live in squalor while native Europeans live cushy lives?
Most of it sits in the fridge for a week before being thrown out