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truebluegreen

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7. I remember reading a book years ago, "Empty Harvest", can't recall the author,

Sun May 29, 2016, 10:17 AM

May 2016

that was concerned with this very issue and even used the healthy/unhealthy teeth-and-diet method to illustrate it. In modern agriculture we have reduced the soil to something that holds plants upright, instead of the living thing it should be. I remember one anecdote from the book where a farmer (Louisiana? Mississippi?) simply burned off his fields, instead of plowing the plant material back in: he said that there was so little bacterial life in the soil that the material wouldn't even decay.

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