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by spiralganglion
1756 days ago
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Reminder to focus on nutritive content, flavour, and crop diversity, not just yield. The past 100 years of industrial scale agriculture, with the singular goal of maximizing yields, has done incredible harm. (This has come up on HN repeatedly, so I trust you've seen it, but it's worth championing) |
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I agree that micronutrient content has decreased in the past century. Some might be because of scale, some might be that yield gains are mostly driven by macronutrients and water, not micronutrients, it could be selecting varieties that taste better, or it could be depleting the soil.
That said, the US has an obesity epidemic, so there's no shortage of macronutrients. Macronutrient shortages also seem rare. Scurvy and rickets aren't exactly problems.