For so many years, we have been informed by the so called 'experts', that organic food yields were insufficient to feed a growing world population.
This series of blogs have completely disproved this biased viewpoint. The facts are, as explained in the companion blogs in this series, that chemically produced food has a decreasing nutritional value, a decrease in disease resistance and leads eventually to a drop in yields over the long term, due to soil erosion and soil exhaustion.
Farmers used to be called 'husbands' to the land of Mother Earth, because their good husbandry increased the fertility of their land and animals. In ancient times, if the king became unjust and corrupt, then the Earth, who was in sacred marriage to the ruler, would withdraw her benefice; the land would lose its fertility, milk yields would fall away and the weather worsen.
Well the sorry state of the current world and its many corrupt leaders, has produced a similar scenario; so that TB in cattle is rife and the bulk matter and nutritional content in food has reduced considerably since figures were first compiled about 1950.
We learn that a mother's breast milk will kill 40 different types of cancer cell and that it is pro-biotic, in that a sugar in this milk is not to feed the baby as such, but instead creates the food for the microbes which will grow and inhabit the child's gut. So right from the creation of a new born baby, Mother Nature provides all the protection from illness and disease that a healthy child will require.
The same is true for the soil, which if left to its own devices with the minimum of interference beyond the normal planting and tilling procedures, will be perfectly capable of resisting disease. Even on a large scale, as with Leontino Balbo's enormous organic sugar acreage in Brazil, he found that he alone produced sugar cane that was resistant to yellow virus on land that had once been severely depleted by chemical usage. Doubtless, the jaguar droppings that he benefits from, as they roam within his sugar crops, give that resistance extra feline poke, with all the microbes and worms and insects responding in kind !
With his yields, on his 16,000 hectares, defying all expectations as they have surged to one third more than chemically produced sugar, he has single handedly proven that we can have large scale production of quality organic food, alongside a resumption of native wildlife both supporting each other, as his forest meditation had promised when he despaired from an initial drop in yields.
If we were to analyse the mineral content in his produce, doubtless it would reveal a degree of quality because Mother Earth had shone her guiding light on his good husbandry.
Today, I had the good fortune to meet a farmers wife on a small tenant farm, who told me that they had always farmed the same way. The cows would reach an age of 16 instead of the more normal 6 years and the chickens, glowing with health would live to a ripe old age, rather than the commercial chickens who live only a year or two at best.
All was at peace amongst the animals on her farm as they lived out their natural lifespan. In the high Himalayas, it is normal for such livestock to live long lives and are then consumed when they naturally die. A BBC visitor tasted the meat and confirmed that although the meat was slightly tough, due to the age of the animals as one would expect: it was still the best meat he had ever tasted. Of course, the animals had enjoyed their lives and not had to endure the horrors of the slaughterhouse, which would taint the meat with their fear and panic.
Another respondent on the BBC mentioned a National Park in Southern Africa, where the large animals had reduced to 1000 in total, but by protecting them and leaving them to their own devices, their numbers had increased in a few years to the present figure of 70,000.
Nature abhors a vacuum, they say and is extraordinarily abundant,, provided we trust it to do what it does best; provide us with all our food and materials to create a revitalised healthy world. It now behoves us all to listen to the wise words of King Solomon in Ecclesiastices:
"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever."
One more thing; the alchemists of old used to rave on about the extraordinary and potentially unique nature of the mineral content on this Earth which certainly the Sun and the planets do not share. Mother Earth has all the various elements in the periodic table up to and including plutonium.
Ask yourself how this can be ? What strange history did our Earth pass from before it came to rest by the sun ?
As yet, I have found no physicist who can explain how uranium and plutonium could exist on this planet, because the forces necessary to create it are so huge, that perhaps only the Big Bang was sufficient to begin their existence. Certainly our Sun has only hydrogen and helium, although its interior may have heavier nuclear elements. The old Inca legend that once the Earth was alone, before the Sun and Moon appeared, is thus an extraordinary memory of the complexity of the Earth's component of elements, which we so depend on and where the Earth came from. From these basic minerals, life on earth has grown and thrived; that is until the overpopulation of mankind has caused desert to spread and since the 1840s, with the use of chemical fertilisers and later herbicides on farmland, soil erosion and depletion.
We really urgently need to take stock and reverse these policies of believing that artificial chemical agriculture can feed a growing world population. With the increasing desert land area in places like Spain, this is even more apparent. The rapid growth in the market for organic food reveals that demand is outstripping supply, precisely because consumers wish to be healthier and ensure that animals are treated compassionately. It behoves us all to view our relationship with the Earth, as our ancestors once did, as of total dependence of us, as children, to our ever productive mother. The complexity of life in our soils is best left to nature alone, because all the minerals and vitamins are naturally present within the land using organic means of production.
Or as they used to call it; muck and mystery !
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