General on Yik Yak | Is the lack of nutrition from not regularly eating homemade meals worsening the health of subsequent generations? Were children healthier 80 years ago?

Yik Yak

Download

Join communities on Yik Yak Download

General 12w

Is the lack of nutrition from not regularly eating homemade meals worsening the health of subsequent generations? Were children healthier 80 years ago?

Anonymous 12w

Homemade meals are also less nutritious currently. Our food as become less nutrient dense as selective breeding practices prioritized things like sweetness in apples to make them more marketable, and poor commercial farming practices has stripped the land of the nutrients it passes onto crops

Anonymous

#1 12w

I actually have a type of biology degree, but unfortunately it’s all in human stuff. I don’t understand the plant/nature side of stuff at all. What do you mean by “poor commercial farming practices”?

Anonymous

OP 12w

We over farm the land which causes soil segregation (plants absorb nutrients from the ground, and when we don’t let the ground rest, we strip the earth of the nutrients). Chemical pesticides also fuck up the land, and ironically so do chemical fertilizers because they strip the ground of its microbial biome within the soil, which is incredibly important in nutrient cycling and bioavailability of the nutrition for the plants

Anonymous

#1 12w

Degradation not segregation. Though the soil structure does also get fucked up so eh

Anonymous

#1 12w

So essentially the practices foolishly focus on short-term gains rather than long-term sustainability?

Anonymous

OP 12w

Yeah pretty much. They also focus on greater yield from one plant, which can be good bc less land use, but also sucks up more nutrients that we aren’t replenishing