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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] As giant crops flourish, vitamins, minerals and taste disappear
  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:29:21 -0400

At 11:33 PM 9/12/2007, you wrote:
I don't discount the obvious, but there are some things in this article that I find to be problematic. It could be just me, but I figured that I'd see what others found.

I'm always concerned about breeding for a single, or a small number, of characteristics in a plant variety. Trying to increase the amount of lycopene in tomatoes, taken by itself, could well result in the loss of some other valuable nutrient. I think the emphasis needs to be on enriching the soil (which of course doesn't mean just throwing fertilizer at it). Then returning to open-pollinated varieties, which by definition are not best for high-yield factory farming.

Liz in SW VA
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