That was me. And knowing that since I follow a mostly organic whole foods diet I have no deficiency syndromes. I also do not see deficiency syndromes that these kinds of figures imply in the general population.
I do not doubt that there is some difference between present day **comercially** farmed soils and the soils of yesteryear. But I also do not buy the statistics without the raw data. Wouldn't be prudent. Garnet On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 18:54, [email protected] wrote: > > > 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 > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
