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Nitrogen is the element of life – is the basis of two proteins in plants and in our bodies. If there is more nitrogen in the soil, farmers can grow more plants in the same soil, but increased use of soil itself makes the poorest in minerals, unless the farmers to replace.
Minerals are inorganic chemicals that are needed for simple organisms. They serve as catalysts for the important processes. Plants usually get the minerals and trace elements from soil, while animals get them from food. So, for example, magnesium for photosynthesis in plants, while the people of magnesium and zinc for the production of hormones and to maintain force levels must. There are many trace elements, which we know are important for human nutrition, but do not know exactly how.
Minerals have been completed to my attention many years ago when I received an audio tape with mail from someone Network Marketing. I tried to stop taking vitamins, but had not noticed any difference, but my urine has a different color, which had rejected the idea that a dietary supplement.
The cassette contained the famous lecture "Dead Doctors Do not Lie" by Joel Wallach. Its premise is that everyone suffers from a lack of minerals, and that the gains of the medical community from our malnutrition. This is an extreme view of the medical profession who are undernourished have an interest in the general population. They have you sign up at this point to accept that our diet is deficient in minerals. E 'flawed country because our food production is industrialized. Michael Pollan in his excellent book "A History of Four Meals," gives us a story that helps us to understand why the loss of mineral nitrogen in an effort harvest.
Before the invention of nitrogen fixation, was the supply of nitrogen to the soil severely limited, even if 80% of atmospheric nitrogen. Until then the only way to capture and put nitrogen in the soil ( "fixed") so he could feed the plants, and then end up in our bodies, the vegetables in the areas of plant. The quantity of grain that farmers could grow were strongly influenced by the amount of limited availability of nitrogen in the soil. Farmers had to turn to crops, so the corn can be grown only once every two years, with increasing age pulses spaced refer to nitrogen and other nutrients. They would also provide livestock grazing and manure spreading in the fields nutrients once more.
In 1909, said a German chemist Fritz Haber invented a process for the production of nitrogen from the atmosphere to resolve and transform them into ammonia, which are then used to make ammonium nitrate could. Developed the technology for use in the production of nitrates for explosives for the German war economy during the First World War. Also developed toxic gases such as ammonia, chlorine and Zyklon B, which was used in concentration camps, the camps of Hitler. Only later was his invention find use in agriculture.
Michael Pollan identified in 1947 as the year in the period of industrialization began in food production. A munitions factory in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, using the Haber-Bosch (Bosch commercialization of the process), the process of nitrogen fixation had a huge surplus of ammonium nitrate to make the main ingredient of explosives. To use this surplus, he moved to make chemical fertilizers. The Ministry of Agriculture has decided to use ammonium nitrate as fertilizer for agricultural land.
The old methods of crop rotation and depending on the vegetable and animal grazing nitrogen and other nutrients in the soil is once again, become void if the fertility of the farmers could take the form of sacks of ammonium nitrate fertilizer to buy.
Haber, had he not found in this artificial way, which complete the nitrogen in agricultural soils, the population could not have happened with the explosion of industrial expansion connected. Pollan refers to a book by Vaclav Smil, enriching the soil, which estimates that two out of five people alive today would be life without invention Haber. Considered the discovery of nitrogen fixation as the most important of the twentieth century.
The end of the rotation and the inexorable, the intense use of farmland for the production of one or two crops (usually corn) and soybeans, which are activated ammonium nitrate fertilizer that minerals extracted from land and when they returned, are only artificially reset and inconsistent for farmers. In general, apart from the nitrogen in ammonium nitrate, with only a few minerals, the most important are potassium and phosphorus. You can also put the calcium, sulfur, magnesium and, sometimes, boron, manganese, iron, zinc, copper and molybdenum. Certainly not to put all the minerals that the needs of the human body.
So what are we the availability of nitrogen and the amount of food that have won we grow, we lost in the nutritional value of essential minerals. We can not rely on industrial food products, for the minerals that we need.

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