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Researchers believe that humans have been using plants as medicine for over 1,650,000 years. Birds, fish, insects, and other mammals are also known to self-medicate with plants when experiencing illness.
In the last hundred years or so, we humans began industrializing our food chain, and now we no longer rely on plants to be our principal source of medicine. And why should we? After all, the grocers’ shelves are filled with potions and notions that claim to be able to cure just about every malady. And so today we are free to roam the range all day, without having to eat a single plant.
But then, we wonder: Are we missing something by turning our backs on plants? Is there some kind of magic that occurs when earth, sky and water come together to present us with a plant? And we wonder:
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Michael Olson’s Three Laws of the Food Chain
#1 Agriculture is the foundation upon which we build all our sand castles.
#2 The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in that food.
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