Your package labels all say, “not a good source of…,” and then proceed with a huge list of things. Then, it lists vitamins and minerals, and gives you 2% of your daily value. 3 meals per day and you get 6% of your daily iron content.

Also… Your fruits and vegetables have 1/4 the nutritional value they did when your grandparents were alive. AND your soil nutrient levels are at an all-time-low.

Your vegetables couldn’t even get the nutrients they needed if you wanted them to.

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/five-reasons-why-soil-health-declining-worldwide

The nutritional value of top soil is declining worldwide. And it generally likes to stay homogenous. So, if your neighbor isn’t taking care of his soil, yours is losing nutrients too.

Also, plant some trees. They take nutrients from the surrounding areas and bring them into your land. There’s an entire fungal network that grows underground, and stretches between the roots of trees. It carries nutrients from one tree to another. Meaning, what your neighbor does affects you.

If he’s growing acres upon acres of industrial food, your own nutrients are depleted.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 days ago

    To answer your rhetorical question, no. Virtually nobody in the US has the slightest inkling of where their food comes from, what’s in it, or what should be in it. Nor do they have any specific strategy for choosing meals that have half a chance of resulting in any particular health outcome.

    – again and despite people like upton sinclair giving us temporary moments of clarity.