Even organic food that's artificially fertilized may be devoid of essential nutrients. This makes processes like hydroponics potentially harmful since you could be consuming more empty calories than you would get from naturally farmed plants. "We're almost just like fattening them up with these artificial fertilizers, but losing a lot of the underlying nutritional value"
What I learned from What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle.
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(1:25) Nutritional Differences in Organic vs. Conventional Foods
(4:09) The Effects of Plowing on Food Quality
(8:10) Why Glyphosate Might Be Killing You
(11:11) The Risk of Artificial Fertilizers vs. Manure
(15:16) Nutritional Differences in Whole vs. “White” Grains
(18:31) Effects of Pesticides and Herbicides on Mental Health
(22:41) Is Milk Healthy?
(26:33) Why Some, But Not All, Meat is Bad for Your Health
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