androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
Industrial farming strips the soil of minerals and other life-giving properties People then must take magnesium bisglycinate, trace minerals, and other supplements to make up for the deficiency in meat & produce Feels like the game is “rob you of your birthright, and sell it back to you as a product”
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will
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what i can’t quite figure out is .. is my local farmers market actually immune from this? i don’t really know how i would know
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
One way to know is to look at the vegetables I like @brixbounty's photos of his produce -- I've learned a lot from it, and look for leaves that look waxy / thick and have good "vascularity" https://warpcast.com/brixbounty/0xe52cedea
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BrixBountyFarm 🎩
@brixbounty
so... a non profit I've worked with for a long time, The Bionutrient Association, was working on bringing a spectrometer to the commercial market to help folks with this. Though at this point they've pivoted away from that focus; so we'll have to wait until one of a cell phone companies puts a spectrometer into a cell phone tech stack (samsung had teased this a few years back). should have pushed for this to be considered by the @ethos team, missed opportunity there The reality at this point, is that more often than not, your taste buds will be the best indicator beyond visual cues; and if you are shopping at a farmers market by all means strike up a conversation with the vendors to assess what they may or may not be doing to improve the nutrient quality of their produce. baseline formula is parent rock material (aka geology) + soil fertility + genetics + crop management + post harvest care = quality. vascularity - cc @ted https://www.bionutrient.org/
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BrixBountyFarm 🎩
@brixbounty
To hit the peak you need a combination of all 5. Though for example in our case we don't score too high on the geological blessings, so have to over compensate on the soil fertility, since we aren't naturally blessed. Genetics for nutrition were generally neglected during the later part of the last century, and have only really come into focus the last decade. The crop management can often be the ultimate limiting factor to set the bar. A refractometer which measures brix can be a decent tool and some consumers, gardeners, and growers have opted to use that. If used enough to understand its limitations (it measures dissolved solids in a liquid - so if you let a crop dehydrate and remove the water content it can give a falsely high reading) the general rule of higher brix equals higher quality is pretty straightforward yet not gospel.
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