Without even opening the article, let me guess. Industrial farming ruins the soil and so the crop can’t absorb the nutrients because they’re just not there? Almost like large-scale profit-first thinking comes back to bite our collective arses like it fucking consistently does in all other areas of life?
I think even if you took profit out of this we’d still have this problem (might be more inclined to fix it though). We need to feed a lot of people. to do that efficiently high yield is needed causing the areas where we farm to become over farmed and the vegetables bred to be larger rather than nutrition focused.
Apparently normal plowing (the thing we’ve been doing for millenia) can damage the soil and reduce the nutrients going to the crops.
I’m so surprised! I don’t think this is news on account of this being the stuff my mother babbled about 26 years ago when she was re-schooling into botany.
It’s why people talk about small scale agriculture and permacultures.
The strains of vegetables are at least as much of a factor I would presume. They have been going towards GE crops to take pesticides more and produce higher outputs.
It’s mostly that, not the soil, as they use fertilizers, which do work, despite many of those fertilizers being sewage, (which is a legitimate, traditional, and good fertilizer,) that is mixed with industrial waste from municipal water systems.
Without even opening the article, let me guess. Industrial farming ruins the soil and so the crop can’t absorb the nutrients because they’re just not there? Almost like large-scale profit-first thinking comes back to bite our collective arses like it fucking consistently does in all other areas of life?
I think even if you took profit out of this we’d still have this problem (might be more inclined to fix it though). We need to feed a lot of people. to do that efficiently high yield is needed causing the areas where we farm to become over farmed and the vegetables bred to be larger rather than nutrition focused.
Apparently normal plowing (the thing we’ve been doing for millenia) can damage the soil and reduce the nutrients going to the crops.
That’s a bingo
I’m so surprised! I don’t think this is news on account of this being the stuff my mother babbled about 26 years ago when she was re-schooling into botany.
It’s why people talk about small scale agriculture and permacultures.
Not-news on a news website? Well colour me shocked.
Seriously though, people still need to hear this.
This is true.
The strains of vegetables are at least as much of a factor I would presume. They have been going towards GE crops to take pesticides more and produce higher outputs.
It’s mostly that, not the soil, as they use fertilizers, which do work, despite many of those fertilizers being sewage, (which is a legitimate, traditional, and good fertilizer,) that is mixed with industrial waste from municipal water systems.
It’s all fucked.
You’re right to point out that there’s other factors as well.
But then you just went … off the rails?