Beyond the Red Apple

摘要

In 2014, the Food Agriculture Organiza-tion of the United Nations stated that I there were roughly 60 harvests of a crop left before the topsoil is depleted of its nutrients. Topsoil is where our crops grow, and its quality determines how many micronutrients get into our food system. Its decline is already impacting the quality of our nutrition. A "perfect storm" of events that is believed to be causing this deterioration of soil and nutritional content in food, including increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere along with chemicals and fertilizers killing off microbes in the soil. Early crop harvesting involving the picking of fruits and veggies while they are hard and ripening them with gases and container temperature variances also has an impact on nutritional value as well.