[Carry_Okie]

I believe the depletion of minerals found in soil is at least in part responsible for the rise in chronic illnesses.

And that, in part, is a consequence of farming without a pastoral rotation. And that is a consequence of monoculture farming.

IOW, we know a lot about how to grow a lot out of former grasslands, but we don't know squat about how to keep that soil system goiong. Instead, we systematically kill that system and put it on a chemical diet at the expense of extraction, processing, transportation, amendment, and weed control costs.

[lastchance]

I wish more would grasp the consequences of misguided farm policies.