What shall we do with foods grown on poor mineral nutrient that is no longer healthy enough for our health?

Question

Cropping takes out mineral nutrients from soil without returning it back. They are depleted casuing less healthy food with less nutrients minerals and vitamins. We are eating less healthy food every days. It is too expensive to replenish these minerals. Many sickness and degenerative disease are caused by this depletion. Is there a way out? Any suggestions?

Answer 1

For some problems, like nitrogen depletion, there is "crop rotation" where one crop replaces nutrients needed by another.

For other things, there is 'fertilizer' which may contain Nitrogen Phosphorus, and Potassium, but may also contain trace minerals, etc. that a plant would need.

Presumably, if the proper nutrients are not there, the plant will not grow or bear fruit. In a diverse ecosystem, other organisms (plants) will thrive because they do not need the nutrient(s) which starve the earlier species.

Answer 2

I only read half of this before I got a little bored, sorry. Some of your references are wrong though, be sure to make the noninsignificant differentiation between BGH, a naturally occuring hormone that cows produce in order to produce milk, and rBGH or recombinant bovine growth hormone, the lab-produced hormone that is injected into cows in order to increase their milk production. Oh, and people drink goat's milk and sheep's milk, too, and have for thousands of years. There are probably other animals that are milked, too. Also, I've seen adult cats and dogs drink milk, actually knocking the top off of the colostrum milk container in the barn so they can reach the milk. It was almost really good, but your sources weren't all exactly on. If you're turning that in for credit, you might want to double check those.