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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
"It's happening to crops in the United States, too. In 2004, Donald Davis, PhD, a former researcher with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin, led a team that analyzed 43 fruits and vegetables from 1950 to 1999 and reported reductions in vitamins, minerals, and protein. Using USDA data, he found that broccoli, for example, had 130 mg of calcium in 1950. Today, that number is only 48 mg. What's going on? Davis believes it's due to the farming industry's desire to grow bigger vegetables faster. The very things that speed growth — selective breeding and synthetic fertilizers — decrease produce's ability to synthesize nutrients or absorb them from the soil."
It's funny they don't mention GM vegetables....
I have read elsewhere that GM veggies show the same lack of nutrients as described in that article.
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I don't understand the point of this quote - the author found modern broccoli to be lower in calcium, but hasn't demonstrated a way to grow broccoli that has 1950's levels of calcium, or even if 1950's levels of calcium are normal for the plant species.