[Lucas Corso]

Originally Posted by swordjumper

The sad truth is that today's food is not what it used to be . Fruit and vegetables are only as good as the soil in which they are grown . Minerals pass from the soil to the plant , and in turn help the plant to grow and produce vitamins . The trouble is that modern farming , which relies heavily on artificial fertilisers and pesticides , robs the soil of nutrients and does not replace them.Phosphates found in fertilisers and pesticides bind to the minerals in the soil , making them less available to the plant . Through overfarming , the soil becomes nutrient deficient anyway . However , adding fertiliser ( nitrogen , phosphate and potassium ) enables plants to keep on growing , but without the full complement of minerals . So the plant does not make its full complement of vitamins and we too end up deficient .
For these reasons , plus the length of time we store foods , there is a staggering range of nutrient content in fruit and vegetables . An orange may provide from 180mg of vitamin C to none at all , the average being around 60mg !

And moreover artificial fertilizers kills the natural bacteria of the soil, a soil fertilized with artificial fertilizers for years is steril and needs years and years to recover...