I don't have an opinion on the Wallach article, since I haven't heard Wallach's tapes to begin with :) But I disagree with your comment that "My opinion is that fruits and vegetables are not mineral deficient as some claim, because they couldn't grow normally if they were."
You're assuming that most of our fruits and vegetables grow "normally" But is normal, healthy? The plants may be typical of how plants grow in mainstream agriculture, but they're certainly not healthy. There have been repeated experiments showing that healthy plants do not get attacked by insects or disease -- you can put a tomato plant that is in a pot of good compost right next to a tomator plant that is infested with aphids, and the aphids won't even touch the healthy tomato plant. And there are many variations of this kind of experiment. So the fact that mainstream ag has to use so many chemicals to stop pests is evidence that our food supply is not healthy. Or test produce with a refractometer -- you'll find that most produce ests very low, indicating very little mineral content. We also know from testing the soil and the forage that the animals are eating that they are nutrient deficient. There's just enough to keep the animals growing, and not dying, but it's also why so many livestock have health problems. One reason is that we've killed the microorganisms in most agricultural soil, and the microorganisms provide for nutrient cycling -- without them, the soil's minerals are locked in a form that is not plant-accessible. When you add the biology back to the soil, the tests show a dramatic increase in the nutrient content in the forage, the animals start gaining weight much more rapidly, and they have few or no health problems. So yes, there has been a change from 50 years ago. Before we resorted to using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and other -icides, our soil had a thriving microbiology. These organisms ensured that nutrients were held in the soil (instead of leaching away) and provided to the plants in a form they could utilize. Unhealthy plants were taken out by insects and disease, so usually only the healthy ones survived to the stage that humans ate them. Now, we use "emergency life support", in the form of chemicals, to force plants to grow and survive regardless of their health or nutrient status. So just because the fruits, veggies, and animals manage to survive does not make them healthy. Judith -------------- Original message from [email protected]: -------------- > From: [email protected] > >>Sorry about the bad link. this will take you to the main page, then >>you can scoll down to the Wallach article. It's really just a >>debunker art. >>My opinion is that fruits and vegetables are not mineral deficient as >>some claim, because they couldn't grow normally if they were.(just like >>"they" claim we couldn't) >>Same with the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. The planet needs a >>certain balance or it (existance) would all be over quickly. >>We don't have "less than we used to".
