Save The Environment

Recently, I wrote about the “Green Revolution” (which I called the Greed Revolution), and some not-commonly-published, negative side effects which that revolution may have had on food.  I told of studies which indicate that hybrid corn may fall considerably short of the nutrient content of open pollinated (O.P.) corn.  I speculated that one reason that botanists began hybridizing plants used for food was so that those plants would not need as many nutrients, of which our soils are deficient in forms available to plants.  (That's why our soils are often called “depleted soils.”  They're depleted of available nutrients.)  In lieu of attempting to raise the quality of our soils to where that quality was when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, or, ideally, to attempt to bring them back to “Garden of Eden” levels of quality, if we could know the (Read More....)