Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 1
The New Agriculture: What It Is, and What It Is Not
How did we end up where we are with our food supply today? Most would admit it
looks pretty grim. Setting aside looming food shortages and price inflation
worldwide, how did we end up with such abysmal nutritional quality coupled with
high levels of noxious chemicals and compounded by deteriorating agricultural
soils around the world?
Unsurprisingly, it has the same roots as our present abysmal economic prospects,
being rooted in short-sighted greed coupled with ignorance and manipulated for
the benefit of a few at the expense of the rest. Unlike economics, however, who
stands to gain when the whole of humanity is ill and malnourished? Not humanity,
that's for sure.
The wealthy may have more money and more security, but their food is no better
than that of the average peasant and often worse. The falling tide of nutritional
quality in food has left everyone's boat high and dry. Surely the wealthy aren't
starving for bulk of food, but they suffer from the same diseases of malnutrition
and toxicity as the rest of us do, namely cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and the
various auto-immune diseases ranging from MS toAIDS. Whether dining in the
fanciest restaurant or the poorest hut, nutrient deficiency and toxic overload are
on everyone's plate.
This is the situation bequeathed to us by a century and a half of the increasing
dominance of agriculture by a corporate industrial model focused solely on yield
and profit. The truth of these observations is undeniable to anyone who looks
objectively at world agriculture today. There are other schools of agriculture that
have rejected the chemical industrial model and deserve great credit for their
struggle to grow clean food and create a healthy environment in harmony with
Nature.
On the following pages we will take a look at where, in our opinion, the
alternatives too fall short of the goal of being truly sustainable or providing the
best possible food. We will also learn a little of the history of mineral balanced
agriculture and it's present role in world food production. None of the following is
meant to offend, but it is not sugar coated.
What The New Agriculture Is Not
All of today's agriculture movements clamor that they have the answers, but do
they? This writer thinks not.
 
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