Its interesting that in response to: "A YC company to -REVOLUTIONIZE- the food industry?"(emphasis mine) the posts center around why its not profitable, not pos

Its interesting that in response to: "A YC company to -REVOLUTIONIZE- the food industry?"(emphasis mine) the posts center around why its not profitable, not possible, not desirable, etc. Wow, a regular bunch of free-thinking, revolutionaries around here. Sad. How about this: A company that helps educate and organize individuals and groups for cooperative food production. Sort of a distributed CFA(community farm alliance) except that a group combines its production resources to form a 'virtual farm'. And in turn, 'virtual farms' can trade in a 'virtual market'. The production could scale from the individual, to the group, to the meta-group, etc. The premise is that an individual signs up and perhaps that person is already involved in some type of food production. Based on their location and what they are producing, they are assigned to contribute to a group of people producing other, complimentary goods. This group meets up and exchanges their produce so that they regularly have a good variety of vegetables etc. Alternately, an individual can sign up and be assigned a certain production item. The site has extensive information resources, and trained farmers, agricultural engineers etc. that can be used for resources. Also, other members from local groups can help this individual if they are knowledgeable, etc. Alternately, groups of people can choose to all produce the same vegetables and then trade them to other groups. The site could invest in community garden plots and charge a small fee for the use of the soil, tools, knowledge base, etc. and in this way allow city/apartment dwellers to participate. This site would be geared towards non-professional farmers that are still interested in local, organic food production. But perhaps it could scale to be larger. Perhaps this isnt exactly, 'revolutionizing the food industry', but if the millions of people spending hours a day on social networks, etc. spent some of their time participating, this could seriously impact food production for many people. I dont know, just off the top of my head, but surely its better to at least TRY to come up with an idea, rather than list off all the reasons its not possible or too hard.