So, I love Spinach but apparently they are sprayed with a lot of insecticides to repel crop eating insects and this rules out Spinach for me. How worried should I be about the use of fertilizer for crop production?
P.S: I have been hearing a lot about sweet potatoes and how they are the perfect food but I was wondering how those were grown, do they use a lot of harmful fertilizer or anything along those lines?
Thanks for all your answers guys :)
Where did you get the idea that fertilizer makes food harmful? You can not grow food without giving the plants nutrients.
Well… The way we give them nutrients is a bit strange nowadays. We basically extract ammonia from Fossil Fuels for fertilizer, not exactly the healthiest way to grow em and it causes algae blooms from the runoff as well. They need nutrients, but the way we grow our food is currently unsustainable and not that healthy compared to naturally grown and with the proper nutrients of growing in its natural life cycle instead of the rapid growth and hardiness we have selected for that diminishes nutrional value as well.
The plants don’t know where the elements (N, P, K, etc.) they absorb come from. At least I haven’t found any evidence to the contrary.
Right, I am saying we grow them quicker which gives them less nutrients. And the fertilizer we use has downside but it does work. Not saying it doesn’t but it also isn’t “healthy” per se.
Yes exactly, fertilizer are all about growing a plant as quickly as possible for as little money as possible, so many miss out important nutritents for nutritious plants in the eye of profit. Edit: I meant to have the original comment here on the main thread woops, this is all I wanted to say here