Despite the many production-related benefits of modern farming, the unfortunate nutritional result is that today’s humans can no longer rely solely upon plants to provide us with all our necessary vitamins and minerals. Stripped of precious vitamins and minerals by current agricultural techniques, our once nutrient-rich soil is now lacking in many of the nourishing properties our bodies need for good health.
Animals have also become unreliable sources of nutrients for us, as the plants, they consume suffer from the same lack of essential vitamins and minerals. In turn, the meat we eat fails to pass on many of these once abundant essential nutrients to our bodies. The widespread use of pesticides, preservatives, and other additives only serves as additional impediments to our absorption of whatever nutrients may remain.