Industrial Farming is Giving us Less Nutritious Food

The commercially grown vegetables, fruits and grains that we are eating today are significantly less nutritious than these foods were 100 years ago, or even just 30 years ago.

Plant breeders have increased yields in most crops, but this is causing our food´s nutrient content to decline. We now have solid, scientific evidence of this troubling trend.

Read full article here:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/Nutrient-Decline-Industrial-Farming.aspx

Background info here:
Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition: What Is the Evidence?
Donald R. Davis
HortScience 44: 15-19 (2009)
http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/44/1/15