Unlike in the old days of total ignorance where farmers burned out soil
so bad it wouldn't even grow weeds and they had to move West, Modern
farmers pay a great deal of attention to supplementing soils with minerals
that were never even present in that soil.
There is no evidence that modern foods have fewer minerals in them than
old foods, if anything, the *variety* of minerals would have increased as
no two natural soil samples are the same even taken a hundred feet apart.
Nutrition today is vastly better than it was 100 years ago.
And given that the old pesticides used were mercury and arsenic based,
even the nasty nerve gas based pesticides, as a bad as they are, are better.
Mineral soils that leach are MADE of minerals and plants use enzymes and
produce acids to extract them.
On the other hand, it takes water to be the solvent and that water has to
stay around for a while to build up mineral concentration extracted from
the finely ground up stone, plus various other microorganisms and fungi
also extract minerals from the rock particles and lots of organic matter
will help keep the water around and support those other contributors.
On the other other hand, you can't extract what isn't there, so
supplementation is a good idea in either case.
Nothing against organic farming, it's just that the old days of ignorance
[not counting the very few enlightened exceptions] wasn't anything like
todays organic farming and wasn't even as good as modern Agribiz which no
longer has to rely on slash and burn, then move, to get something to grow.
Recall that the "Dust Bowl" was 80 years ago?
Those farmers came FROM the East BECAUSE the East was burned up and
nothing left to slash.
..haven't made one since.
And Eastern forest land has increased by around 90%. It probably took 40
years just for a short needle scrub pine to grow on all those old terraced
fields around here...and now, you have to weed out oaks to even grow a pine.
Farming methods can use some improvement, but that doesn't mean that modern
Agribiz wasn't an improvement over yesteryear...which was far worse... and
very few people lived past 60 only 80 years ago, in large part due to
dismal nutrition.
People are also taller now.
Ode
At 06:51 AM 4/18/2010 -0700, you wrote:
Dorothy,
70 - 100 years ago we did get our minerals from food. The problem
is farmland has been overfarmed and farmed incorrectly which leached and
destroyed much of the mineral content of the topsoil. As a result our
food is devoid of many trace minerals. If you have a garden or farm, a
supplement like Azomite would be great to add to the soil as fertilizer.
Your veggies would be brimming with minerals formed 40 million years ago
when these substances were in abundance. Since factory farms don't use
organic methods you will get only a few select minerals that might help
grow the plants but do little for your varied needs.
Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy Fitzpatrick" <d...@deetroy.org>
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Concentrace ionic minerals are supposed to be good, but I personally think
you would get most minerals from food. After all, we would naturally
drink rainwater if we didn't live near a stream--or we didn't have a water
recycling system. dee
On 18 Apr 2010, at 00:42, Leslie wrote:
OK. What should I do to add some minerals. You mentioned some filter and
adding Clay? Would appreciate some suggestions and simple directions for
me and reasonable px. Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Banever" <bbane...@earthlink.net>
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Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: CS>H202 - again
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