FW: Brother Nazariah's IllInformedDiatribeAgainst Veganism

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Thanks Jeff, again,

 

Robert here, once more.

 

Yes, there are many examples like the tree growth. A friend of mine in

California grows tomatoes in 3 gallon pots, and gets at least 5 to 10 pounds

of tomatoes from each plant, which grow at least 4 feet high. The plants

themselves weigh several pounds. After the tomato plants are tossed out

after the summer, the pots are as heavy as they ever were. There certainly

isn't any obvious loss of dirt volume, nor weight. My friend uses a tiny bit

of tomato fertilizer, but this can't account for the tomato plant and fruit

weight increase.

 

The fact is that plants use a lot of minerals and elements from the air,

plus bacteria in the soil absorb a lot of minerals from the air, along with

water, plus a small amount of nutrients from the soil. Plants pick up the

nutrients from the bacteria in the soil, along with water.

 

The use of NPK fertilizers in agriculture stimulates plants to grow

large, but not rich in other nutrients. At its worst, the NPK basically

poisons the soil, and at its best throws the soil out of balance. The

plants develop large cells containing lots of water (which dilutes the

excessively concentrated nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), and potassium (K)),

but since other minerals are not as available in the soils, the plants and

their fruits end up being watery (juicy), fairly flavourless, and generally

less colourful, for their size.

 

Gardens that use compost, mulch, rock dust, worms, etc, provide for

fruit and vegetables that are more normally balanced in their

mineral/nutrient content. Thus plants grown in these gardens will be healthy

and will not decompose, deteriorate, degenerate, or die early. Insects and

other bugs are especially attracted to plants, fruits, etc, that are not

healthy. Besides proliferating in over ripe fruits and vegetables, bacteria

and molds develop naturally in plants, fruits, etc that are imbalanced and

sick. This is why agriculture with its use of NPK needs to use so many

chemicals to drive off the bugs and other organisms that feed off of the

inferior plants, fruits, and vegetables it produces. A person who goes out

and picks wild berries, and other wild foods, can easily note how good

tasting the berries are, and how generally unaffected they are by insects,

etc. Wild plants and their fruits are not sick from NPK poisoning, or over

fertilization. The excessive use of concentrated animal manure can also

poison or imbalance soils.

 

Human supplement usage has many similarities to NPK use in agriculture.

 

 

Thanks again, Robert

 

 

 

Jeff Rogers wrote:

 

> I recall learning in a class of a study of a tree. (this is the basic

> jist of it) A seed was planted in a large pot of dirt after the soil

> was weighed. A large tree eventually grew. The tree was removed and

> the soil was weighed. There was very little difference in weight from

> before the tree was planted, even though the tree may have weighed

> tons!

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> Obviously, it does not get it's mass from the soil.

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> Jeff

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> >Some people love to talk just for the sake of talk. Did that guy

> >actually measured how much nutrients a plant gets from the soil? How

> >did he come up to 1%?

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