> > I would like to see data that supports your statement. I think it > > is highly probable that this is another one of those fear based > > myths that is propagated by those who would profit. >
Hi. I accidentally deleted the post that contained the above, so I'm not sure who made this request, but I wanted to share some information that I have. This information comes from "Colloidal Silver Maker and Researcher's Manual". I'm going to quote here: "What isn't taken into account is that our food supply does not provide enough minerals, and hasn't for a long time as evidenced by these excerpts from U.S.Senate Document #264, 74th Congress, 2nd Session, 1936: *Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot be remedied until depleted soils from which our food comes are brought into proper mineral balance? The alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables and grains) now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals, are starving us -- no matter how much of them we eat. No man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect helath because his stomach isn't big enough to hold them. The truth is that our foods vary enormously in value, and some of them aren't worth eating as food. It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99% of the American people are deficient in these minerals and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease.* Do you think our soils have improved since then? The "Earth Summit Report", 1992 issue, reported that the levels of soil-based minerals in North America have decreased by 85% of the levels found 100 years ago." (end quote) Well, I guess the 74th Congress could have been wrong in 1936, but in all the years of my life, I've never heard of a farmer putting minerals back into their farmland in order to improve the quality of the food produced. I have certainly heard of farmers putting fertilizer and weed-killer on their farmland in order to improve the QUANTITY of the food produced. Sounds like a money-trail to me. FWIW. MA
