Mineral content in organic and non organic food

Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, 8th oldest in the USA, has published comparative data for the mineral content in organic and non organic food and the figures are shocking. Of course, the figures may not be so bad in the UK, for example, but they reveal why so many people are suffering from so many ailments caused by such malnutrition.
Thus, lack of boron can increase arthritis, menopausal problems, bone disease, cancer, etc. One shouldn't assume that meat can supply this; if the livestock are fed on similar mineral depleted feed, then they will also lack boron which will reduce their immunity to TB in cattle, for instance. Intensive farming will not necessarily produce quality yields, as more chemicals kills off the bees and the micro-biological of the soils. Lack of cobalt means that Vitamin B 12 is not synthesised; as true for sheep and cattle as for humans. The nil figures for cobalt in non organic food, given below, is extremely pertinent in this regard.

Food                                          Trace Element Parts per Million Dry Weight

                                                    Boron |  Manganese | Iron | Copper | Cobalt

Snap Beans
Organic                                           73              60            227       69        0.26
Non organic (Chemical)                  10               2              10         3          0

Cabbage
Organic                                            42              13              94        48       0.15
Non organic (Chemical)                    7                2              20         0.4       0

Lettuce
Organic                                             37            169            516        60       0.19
Non organic (Chemical)                     6                1                9          3         0

Tomatoes
Organic                                             36              68            1938       53       0.63
Non organic (Chemical)                     3                 1                 1         0         0

Spinach
Organic                                              88            117           1584       32       0.25
Non organic (Chemical)                    12                1               49        0.3      0.02

They say statistics can lie, ha ha, but if more studies are made elsewhere, it may be that American soils are more depleted than elsewhere, bur generally, every chemical application that is made depletes world soils more and more. We know this from statistics collected about 1950, which show that soils back then produced food with roughly double the mineral content to UK soils about the year 2000 and doubtless, the figures have worsened since then. I used to sort potatoes on a chemical farm 20 years ago, used for chips and these were so chemical that they would turn top mush, if left too long in the sack. Carrots, too don't keep over winter like they used to, while leeks taste like mouthwash compared to those I produce on my allotment which are creamy and delicious.
The above tables also give comparative figures for other minerals such as potassium, sodium, magnesium,phosphorus and calcium with similar shocking results. I felt it would be much clearer to the reader to keep the table simple.  As the cobalt and iron figures amply demonstrate, non organic chemical food is becoming increasingly valueless as a source of nutrition, so the UK Government's call to eat '5 a day', should be amended to organic rather than non organic food.. We now urgently require more comparative figures on the vitamin content in these foods and in the meat and farmed fish as well.