"Now fortunately for us, plants can make many of the vitamins, amino acids and fatty acids. People, I think, are getting more aware of that. They are juicing, doing all that stuff. But there's no single plant that can do that. Just juicing organically grown carrots every morning doesn't give you all of this. You have to eat 15-25 different plants in the right ratios every day to do this effectively. Most people, even the ones who think they know what they're doing, don't do it right. So theoretically it's possible to do it, but we really don't do it. In fact, a lot of people, their only vegetable of the day are potato buds out of the Betty Crocker box. ...
"Now unfortunately for us, plants cannot make minerals. There are no more minerals left in the soil. we know it takes 6 to 10 years to deplete the soil of minerals. If there are no more minerals in the soil, plants do not have minerals in them. They don't need them for maximum yield, and that's all the farmer cares about. He gets paid for maximum yield. It's interesting. We don't require an analysis on beets and carrots and radishes. But we do require an analysis on the back of Coca-Cola. I find that amazing. ...
"US Senate Document 264 ... says essentially that there's no more nutritional minerals left in our farm and range soils in the United States - and that the only way you can prevent and cure diseases in animals and people who eat crops grown on these minerally deficient soils is to consciously take mineral supplements. Interestingly enough, it was published by the US Senate in 1936, 57 years ago, not two weeks ago...
...The June Earth Summit, June 1992, you know in Rio. ...
Most people only remember that because Bush wouldn't sign any of the treaties, if we were going to have to pay for it to support the world. ... At any rate, here's the most important thing that was said at the Earth Summit, and it wasn't very sexy so not many people picked up on it. They compared the minerals values on our soils and our farms and ranges around the world by continent. The samples over the last hundred years, and here's what they said. It's pretty scary:the African continent's farm soils and range soils are 74% depleted from what they were 100 years ago
Asia, 75% depleted
Europe, 72% depleted
South America is 76% depleted
United States is 85% depletedSome of our farms are 100% depleted and some are 60% depleted, but on the average, we are 15% worse than the rest of the world. ... It's kind of like a checking account: you keep writing checks for 60 bucks and you only keep depositing 3 bucks - what happens after a couple of months? Your checks start bouncing. Right now, our health is bouncing, because we're minerally deficient." ... Dr Joel Wallach, ND, DVM