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Re:Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped ... by jryan49 on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:50PM (#20966385)
Why not just add minerals to our fertilizers? Organics is such a regression after the green revolution (which has saved billions of lives).
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Re:Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped ... by bbarnett on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:27PM (#20966779)
https://farmingfirst.org/2011/01/selenium-fortified-fertiliz...

Apparently Finland made it mandatory, and it worked.

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Re:Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped ... by aitchnyu on Saturday September 14, 2019 @11:04AM (#20971220)
Chuckled. HN taught me that nitrogen fixing used to be a natural bottleneck to human population growth and factory-made nitrates made calories cheaper and caused a population explosion. And farming practices left the land less suitable for feeding them.
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