So, will the suppliers of the vegetables grown in this manner supply a pill in the package for the missing nutrients in their prodcuts?
It is not as easy as it sounds to find an acceptable supplement. The Formula Inc "Molecular Multi" is far from complete. Where are the calcium, copper, and vanadium? The body's regulatory system dumps excess zinc and copper together (without discrimination). If copper and zinc are not taken simultaneously, dumping the excess zinc will cause a copper deficiency. Vanadium in trace amounts helps prevent (and treat) adult onset diabetes. The "Molecular Multi" may not even be "better than nothing". So why aren't we in more trouble today with the lack of the nutrients in farm produced vegetables? Because meats are rich in many of those nutrients and most of us eat meat. Despite the fact that I hate the thought of eating animals, I recognize that with today's marketplace foods, I would become malnourished by not eating meat. Eating veal is even more nutrient rich because nutrient absorption by the young animals is far higher than older animals. On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:13 AM, a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: > It's easy enough to take a good vitamin supplement like Fgrmulas Inc's > "Molecular Multi" > > AA > > On 3/18/2017 11:29 AM, H LV wrote: > > Good questions. > Lets hope vertical farming is well studied before it becomes common place > or it could become another agricultural folly. > > Harry > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> One of the problems with agricultural vegetables today is that they are >> devoid of the micronutrients that the human body needs to be healthy. >> These include a lot of trace minerals (boron, calcium, vanadium, iodine, >> zinc, copper, magnesium ...) that are found in fresh soil; but for 100 >> years, these micronutrients have been farmed out (and not replaced). >> Farmers only add N-P-K back to the soil because they found that doing so >> would make green plants, but that doesn't mean that the resulting plants >> are chemically nutritious for humans. Historical farming was most >> nutritious in flood plains because the flood silt would restore the >> micronutrients to the soil. >> >> Plants cannot absorb these micronutrients as oxides or sulphates directly >> - they must be broken down by consumption in bacteria within the soil and >> chemically converted to metal chelates in the bacterial deficant before the >> plants can absorb them. >> >> So, how in a vertical farm are the core nutrients and micronutrients >> supplied to the plant in a way that the plant can absorb them? Are they >> growing the bacteria in a vat from which they extract the chelate-rich >> water (absorb-able nutrients) for spraying on the plant roots? Are the >> resulting plants nutritious? >> >> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 8:36 AM, H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Vertical farming is slowly becoming more common. >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_tvJtUHnmU >>> >>> Harry >>> >> >> > >
