Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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To answer my own question/challenge... What this article 
(http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/331421_bigfood13.html) noted that I 
found extremely hard to believe (so much so that I didn't believe it) was 
that no one foresaw the nutrient decline in our foods:

Some say the gutting of the nutritional value of what we eat could affect 
public health, particularly in poorer countries. "There is no sinister 
villain behind this," said Chuck Benbrook, chief scientist for the Organic 
Center, which commissioned the report. "Increasing the amount of food grown 
per acre, by itself, is a good thing.

"The problem is that until recently, no one ever checked to see what was 
happening to the nutritional value of these much larger tomatoes, bigger 
grapefruit and the rest of the crops."

REALLY?

I looked up the "Organic Center" to see who was behind this organization and 
found that non other than the esteemed Dr. Pimintel (Cornell University) is 
on their board.  I'm hoping that Dr. Pimintel could speak to this claim, as I 
had thought that he was a bright enough fellow.

After I had posted this to this group I spotted comments on this article from 
the following:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/soundoff/comment.asp?articleID=331421

These folks here confirmed what I figured, that people have known about this 
deficiency for a LONG time.  Me being a newbie in all of this I didn't feel 
safe just going on what I had recently heard (within the last few years).

Science is good, but all these "scientists" are making it look really bad...


-Mark Nagel