The Nitrogen Ticking Time Bomb

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By Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

The application of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers to farmland represents the epitome of unsustainable agriculture. In an extremely shortsighted view, use of such fertilizer makes sense because plants need nitrogen to grow.

As such, crops pull nitrogen out of the soil each season, leaving it depleted after harvest. Traditional agriculture techniques, such as composting crop waste and applying animal manure, naturally help to cycle usable nitrogen back into the soil.

But in the early 1900s, a German chemist developed synthetic nitrate, which is the form of nitrogen plants use.

Originally, this nitrate was used to make bombs, …read more

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