I dunno, sounds like hooey to me.
Minerals are what? Broken down rocks?
What breaks down the rocks? Weather. Airborne, water borne acids and
such. Roots.
Mineral soil is that stuff under the organic humus.
With out minerals you have no mineral soil.
Some of the minerals that tend to leach out are brought up by the roots
and laid back down on the surface by rotting organic matter. Some of that
leaches back down if the soil is very porous, some runs off, but no
neighbor will "suck" minerals off your farm. That's ridiculous. They might
benefit from your runoff though.
Rivers used to flood and deposit soils in places that no longer get that
runoff. Soil has always migrated.
What is going away is top soil, not so much mineral soil. If both go,
you have NO soil and no farm...just rock.
Minerals in soils are not evenly distributed, nor is it likely that the
missing ones were supplemented 100 years ago as they often are today, so
whatever concentration of minerals a food may have, depended on where it
was grown.
To overcome the limits imposed by spotty mineral concentrations in soils,
eat free range meat ? Deer [forest goats] eat anything, which is why I'm
growing stalks in the garden this year. Dang it.
Senate reports also said that black men or Mexicans inevitably raped white
women if they smoked pot or snorted coke, depending on what era the boogie
man was being reported in. Just because a report was submitted doesn't
mean it's the truth.
I doubt that testing in 1936 included a wide enough sampling to reveal
anything worth while.
How many apples from what areas were tested?
It's like pointing to that rare 100 year old man and saying everyone
lived that long.
People did not live longer healthier lives 100 years ago. Their nutrition
was not better than it is now. Remember scurvy, goiters and
rickets? Those ailments are quite rare now...they weren't all that rare
even 50 years ago.
Now, we have the ability to eat both Vermont and Washington apples, Idaho
potatoes and Ohio corn.
We..people.. are "free ranging" like never before and living longer, more
healthy, than ever before. [But we also have more choices of what foods to
eat too much of, to make badly. ]
Although Agribiz farm practices are pretty abysmal, they were pretty much
horrid 100 years ago and small farms burned out fast, then people went West
to destroy more ground.
Erosion of top soil is not worse per acre now than then, if anything,
it's better...but....there's a lot more acres.
There hasn't been a 1930s style "dust bowl" in a long time.
You can walk just about anywhere in the South and find traces of burned
out farms from 100 years ago in the forests. Old erosion gullies are by no
means rare but new ones are.
The soil got so bad that only short needle pines with deep tap roots
would grow..not even grass would.
The next step in natures reclamation is long needle pines, then the oaks
and maples. Now you have to fight back the oaks and maples to get a good
stand of pines and if you don't till or mow, you have hardwood trees
chasing you around.
10 years ago, the soybean field next door wasn't the 25 foot tall tangle
of sweetgums it is now, nor is it the expanse of bare sand and scrub pines
it was 80 years ago.
There is much improvement to be made and some "new ideas" need to be
discarded, but farming is not worse than it was.
A plant grown in virgin soil, here, will not have the same minerals
available to it in virgin soil somewhere else.
Even a hundred yards can make all the difference.
It's highly doubtful that farmers even considered that 100 years ago.
Now, most farmers do and use mineral supplementation.
Ode
At 10:01 AM 8/4/2006 -0400, you wrote:
Dan said,
>I do have some philosophical problem with unending
supplementation especially such as the very large
vitamin C intake of the Rath/Pauling protocolÂ…I tend
toward preferring dietary changes as opposed to taking
refined supplements ("Let your food be your
medicine"...etc).<
This would a reasonable eating philosophy if it were
possible to obtain the nutrients we needed from any
food grown today. But the level of soil
demineralization in North America is far more serious
than most people suppose. U.S. Senate Report #264
declares the mineral-poor soil condition in North
America to have reached a serious, even disastrous
level. This is even more significant when you consider
that this report was published in 1936!
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