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Why not just add minerals to our fertilizers? Organics is such a regression after the green revolution (which has saved billions of lives).


https://farmingfirst.org/2011/01/selenium-fortified-fertiliz...

Apparently Finland made it mandatory, and it worked.


Chuckled. HN taught me that nitrogen fixing used to be a natural bottleneck to human population growth and factory-made nitrates made calories cheaper and caused a population explosion. And farming practices left the land less suitable for feeding them.




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