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In the years before World War II, we did not know if there was a connection between soil fertility and human health. But, many believed there was such a connection.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Albrecht – Soil and Health
One who did believe was Professor William Albrecht at the University of Missouri, whose 1958 book Soil Fertility and Human Health put forth the hypothesis that the various conditions of the soil were responsible for variations in human health.
It was a commonsense hypothesis: If nutrients are not in the soil, how could they possibly be in us?
Albrecht served as Chair of the University of Missouri’s Department of Soil Science from 1938 to 1959, and his collected works, which were published by ACRES USA as The Albrecht Papers, laid out his “Show me!” case for soil nutrition and plant health. As such, the Papers helped lay the ground work for what would later come to be known as “Eco Agriculture,” and further down the line to what came to be engraved into law as “Organic” agriculture, and today as “Sustainable” agriculture.
But the Albrecht’s Hypothesis was proved to be not quite right!
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